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From: scion10/24/2019 6:51:34 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg assailed from all directions in Hill marathon

Scott Rosenberg 11 hours ago
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More than 50 members of Congress barraged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from all directions at a 6-hour House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday that ranged far afield from its ostensible topic — Facebook's cryptocurrency project, Libra.

Driving the news: Instead Wednesday's hearing focused on Facebook's handling of discrimination and civil rights and its lack of diversity; its role in elections; free speech and content moderation; monopolistic behavior, anonymity, terrorism, child sexual abuse and more.

Why it matters: At the moment that Facebook is broadening its ambitions with Libra, aiming to revamp the global financial system singlehandedly, lawmakers from both parties are determined to hold the tech giant responsible for an ever-wider portfolio of troubles.

The big picture: A year and a half after Zuckerberg first testified before Congress amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) welcomed the CEO with an onslaught of criticism and made it clear that for many at the Capitol, distrust of Facebook has only hardened since then.
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