Marks Zuckerbergs' Notes From The Senate Hearing

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg pulled off a smooth appearance in a joint Senate hearing today, avoiding most inquiries while keeping up a sufficiently tolerant vibe through five hours of differed however generally tame addressing. The CEO abstained from conceding that Facebook is a distributer or a restraining infrastructure, declined to focus on any important enactment and consciously tended to administrators over an about five hour marathon declaration.

In any case, he made one tenderfoot slip-up.

Zuckerberg left his listening ability notes open before his seat for quite some time for AP Photographer Andrew Harnik to snap a high determination shot with ideas on display. Twitter clients and writers filtering photographs from the court as they hit the wire rushed to see, the incongruity of the minor protection intrusion not lost on them.

The greater part of the notes cover focuses that we heard Zuckerberg rehash over the span of the hearing, however there are a couple of more sincere proclamations that didn't come up. The notes additionally give a look into what lines of addressing Facebook anticipated. For one, they expected Congress may request his renunciation.

Beneath we've recorded the subheadings on his notes in strong with any fascinating visual cues hauled out. Our incomplete transcript holds the first accentuation from the record. In spite of the fact that we've emphasized what was underlined, intense lettering is held.

Cambridge Analytica
Compensation
Reverse lookup (scraping)
Accountability

• Do you ever fire anyone? Yes; hold people accountable all the time; not going into specifics.
• Resign? Founded Facebook. My decisions. I made mistakes. Big challenge, but we’ve solved problems before, going to solve this one. Already taking action.
• No accountability for MZ? Accountable to you, to employees, to people who use FB.

Data Safety

• I use FB every day, so does my family, invest a lot in security.

Business Model (ads)

• Want FB to be a service that everyone can use, has to be free, can only do that with ads.
• Let’s be clear. Facebook doesn’t sell data. You own your information. We give you controls.

???/ wellbeing

• Time spent fell 5% Q4, pivot to MSI.

Defend Facebook

• [If attacked: Respectfully, I reject that. Not who we are.]

Tim Cook on biz model

• At FB, we try hard to charge you less. In fact, we’re free.
• On data, we’re similar. When you install an app on your iPhone, you give it access to some information, just like when you login with FB.
• Lots of stories about apps misusing Apple data, never seen Apple notifying people.
• Important you hold everyone to the same standard.

Disturbing content
Election integrity (Russia)
Diversity

• Silicon Valley has a problem, and Facebook is part of that problem.
• Personally care about making progress; long way to go [3% African American, 5% Hispanics]

Competition

• Consumer choice: consumers have lots of choices over how they spend their time.
• Small part of ad market: advertisers have choices too – $650 billion market, we have 6%
• Break up FB? US tech companies key asset for America; break up strengthens Chinese companies.

GDPR (Don’t say we already do what GDPR requires)