Reborn multinational giant

Chapter 341 Congressional Hearing

In the congressional hall, Zuckerberg sat alone. Around him, dozens of reporters with video cameras, two or three floors inside and outside, flashed on Mark Zuckerberg. Face with a fake smile!

Behind Zuckerberg, many audience representatives and media reporters from all over the United States and around the world whispered in whispers, waiting for members of Congress to arrive.

A few minutes later, a total of 44 members of Congress, whose average age was over fifty, stepped into the congress hall one after another, sitting leisurely on their seats.

After all the members have sat down, the hearing will officially begin!

The congressman presided over the hearing first briefly introduced the purpose of the hearing, which is to conduct a hearing investigation on the recent Facebook data leakage issue!

The results of the Congressional investigation hearing will directly affect the handling of the Facebook data breach by the US government and regulatory agencies. Historically, the famous McCarthy Incident, Watergate Incident and other sensational events in the United States and the world have held similar Congresses. Hearings.

After the presiding member briefly introduced the reason for the hearing, he asked Mark Zuckerberg to introduce himself and Facebook. Although Facebook is now well-known in the United States and the world, the reputation is not only notorious. In addition, many of the parliamentarians who are over 50 years old don’t know much about Facebook. Even some of them don’t even know what the social network Mark Zuckerberg said is.

Therefore, at the beginning of the hearing, the audience and the media heard a gray-haired congressman asked a question that made them laugh:

"Zuckerberg, you said faceb..fabook...facebook is a social network platform. Could you please explain what a social network platform is. Can it be considered a party on the Internet?"

Hearing the question asked by the congressman who stuttered even when he read the word on Facebook, Zuckerberg was dumbfounded for several seconds.

Before coming, he and the Facebook team prepared answers to many questions, but it definitely does not include such a question that makes people feel a little bit nonsense. You don’t even know what the social platform is. You still ask me questions. An idiot, even more idiot than your white hair!

Zuckerberg kept scolding the "idiot" congressman in his heart, but with a smirk on his face, he tried to pretend to be calm and said:

"Your Excellency, the social network platform is not a party, it is just a display platform for users' personal information. Users can add friends to each other, follow and browse the personal information announced and displayed by other users!"

The gray-haired congressman certainly didn't know that Zuckerberg was slandering him in his heart. He smiled kindly and asked:

"Does the information published and displayed externally refer to the information that the user allows other users to see?"

"Yes, sir!" Zuckerberg replied subconsciously. He suddenly felt like he was in a trap. Sure enough, in the next second, the gray-haired congressman’s amiable smile disappeared. Instead, he was stern. He glared and asked: "So, is the Facebook user information that is spreading everywhere on the Internet allowed by Facebook users?"

Listening to the white-haired congressman chanting the Facebook word surreptitiously, Zuckerberg remembered that he had just scolded the congressman for an idiot, and now it seems that he is the one who is the idiot!

"No, no!" While Zuckerberg denied denying, he quickly increased his vigilance. Sure enough, there is no good way to be a member of Parliament, even if he has gray hair and does not know what Facebook is, he may even have a lot of things. He hadn't touched a computer before, and that didn't prevent him from using his wisdom to set himself up.

Sure enough, the next members of the legislature were extremely dangerous.

A member asked, this time the online media broke the news that there are more than a thousand applications on Facebook, all of which are collecting user information without the user's consent. Is this true?

If it is true, then why has Facebook failed to take measures against these applications? Is it neglecting supervision or deliberately?

For the previous question, the online media has completely cleaned up Facebook, and Zuckerberg has also admitted this at the previous press conference, so he can only continue to admit it at the moment.

Regardless of whether it is negligence of supervision or deliberate action, the Facebook team cannot shirk the blame, whichever is the lesser of the two, Zuckerberg can only helplessly admit that he neglected supervision, if he wants to admit that it was deliberate. If so, well, there is no need to continue the subsequent hearings!

There is also a member of the Council, the question is even sharper. He directly asked whether Facebook can protect users' information security only by paying Facebook.

Zuckerberg could only insist on a smirk, and continued to deny it. He told the congressmen that Facebook is free to use. They make money through advertising revenue and other means on Facebook and will not charge users directly. The congressman who asked the question was tricky. Continue to ask:

"When I chatted with my friends on Facebook, I mentioned that I liked a certain kind of chocolate, but I saw various chocolate advertisements on Facebook the next day, so in the meantime, is your Facebook collecting the chat data between my friends and me? And analyze them for advertising and marketing?"

The use of user information for advertising and marketing without the user’s consent is another place where the online media has concentrated on accusing Facebook in the past two days. However, Zuckerberg still defended:

"When a user registers for our facebook, the user agreement states that only if the user agrees to us to use his personal information for advertising and marketing, he can register for the facebook platform!"

As soon as Zuckerberg said this, the media reporters and audience in the audience exclaimed!

Everyone knows that there are probably not a few people in the world who will patiently read the so-called user service agreement user instructions when registering a certain software. Zuckerberg’s reason, although reasonable and legal, But it's not sensible, but he can only choose the former in such a situation where he speaks the Fa without empathizing.

After that, some members asked Zuckerberg what he thought of his employees reselling user data to the outside world, and some members asked about the theft of some Facebook user information circulating on the Internet, including some celebrities’ private photos and other information, what Facebook plans to do And compensation for the losses of these users and so on.

Fortunately, for these questions, before Zuckerberg came, he and the team had already analyzed and discussed, so the questions he answered did not show any errors. Now Zuckerberg is taking measures to criticize the lawmakers. , Admit the mistake, and compensate all the losses suffered by Facebook users and the public in this data crisis!

Seeing that the hearing is coming to an end, Zuckerberg thought that this five-hour journey of torture and interrogation was finally over. Clinking, at this time, a female congresswoman with glasses asked another question. The question that made Zuckerberg and the media reporters and audience unexpected, but held their breath.

The congresswoman asked:

"Is there racial discrimination on Facebook?"