Chapter 340

Zuckerberg sat alone on the auditorium in the congress hall. Around him, dozens of reporters with cameras were on two or three floors inside, outside and outside. The flash hit Mark Zuckerberg with a fake smile!

Behind Zuckerberg, many audience representatives and media reporters from all over the United States and around the world whispered and waited for the arrival of members of Congress.

After a few minutes, a total of 44 congressmen with an average age of more than 50 entered the parliament hall and sat slowly in their seats.

After all the members sit down, the hearing officially begins!

The congressman presiding over the hearing should first briefly introduce the purpose of holding this hearing, that is, to make a hearing investigation on the recent uproar about Facebook data leakage!

The results of the congressional investigation hearing will directly affect the handling of Facebook data leakage by the U.S. government and regulators. In history, similar congressional hearings have been held for the famous McCarthy incident, Watergate incident and other events that have caused a sensation in the United States and even the world.

After briefly introducing the reasons for holding the hearing, the presiding member asked Mark Zuckerberg to introduce himself and Facebook. Although Facebook is now famous in the United States and even the world, in addition to its bad reputation, many congressmen in their 50s do not know much about Facebook, even some of them, Even Mark Zuckerberg's social network doesn't know what it is.

Therefore, at the beginning of the hearing, the audience and the media heard a white haired member raise a question that made them laugh bitterly:

"Zuckerberg, you said Facebook.. fabook... Facebook is a social networking platform. Please explain what is a social networking platform and whether it can be regarded as an online party?"

Zuckerberg was stunned for several seconds when he heard the question asked by a congressman who stuttered even when he read Facebook words.

Before coming, he and the Facebook team prepared answers to many questions, but definitely not including such a question that makes people feel a little unreasonable. Even Temo social platform doesn't know what it is. You still ask me questions. What an idiot, more idiot than your white hair!

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

"Your Excellency, the social networking platform is not a party. It is just a platform for displaying users' personal information. Users can add friends to each other, pay attention to and browse the personal information published and displayed by other users!"

Of course, the white haired congressman didn't know that Zuckerberg was slandering him. He smiled kindly and asked:

"Does the information published and displayed to the public refer to the information that users allow other users to see?"

"Yes, sir!" Zuckerberg answered subconsciously, and suddenly felt that he seemed to be in the trap. Sure enough, the next second, the white haired congressman's amiable smile had disappeared, replaced by severe glare and scolding: "so, are Facebook users allowed to spread Facebook user information everywhere on the Internet?"

Listening to the white haired congressman's sneaky Facebook words, Zuckerberg remembered that he had called the congressman an idiot just now. Now it seems that he is the idiot!

"No, it's not!" Zuckerberg denied it. At the same time, he quickly raised his vigilance. As expected, there was no good fault for being a congressman. Even if he had white hair, didn't know what Facebook was, and even hadn't touched a computer for many years, it didn't prevent him from setting a trap for himself with his own wisdom.

Sure enough, the next congressmen, one by one, were extremely dangerous.

A congressman asked, is it true that the online media broke the news that there are more than 1000 applications on Facebook, which are collecting user information in various ways without the user's consent?

If it's true, why hasn't Facebook taken any measures against these applications all the time? Is it deregulation or intentional?

In front of the problem, the online media have cleaned up Facebook, and Zuckerberg admitted it at the previous press conference, so he can only continue to admit it at the moment.

The Facebook team is to blame for the latter problem, whether it is deregulation or intentional behavior. Take the lesser of the two. Zuckerberg can only reluctantly admit that it is deregulation. If he wants to admit that it is intentional, well, there is no need to continue the subsequent hearing!

Another congressman, the question is more sharp. He directly asked whether Facebook can protect users' information security only by paying for Facebook?

Zuckerberg could only fake a smile and continue to deny it. He told the congressman that Facebook was free to use. They made money through advertising revenue and would not charge users directly. The congressman who asked the question continued to ask cunningly:

"When I chatted with my friends on Facebook, I mentioned that I like some kind of chocolate. As a result, I saw various chocolate advertisements on Facebook the next day. So in the middle, is your Facebook collecting chat data with my friends and analyzing them for advertising marketing?"

Using the user's information for advertising marketing without the user's consent is another place where the online media have focused on criticizing Facebook in the past two days. However, Zuckerberg defended:

"When a user registers for Facebook, the user agreement says that he can register for the Facebook platform only if he agrees that we use his personal information for advertising and marketing!"

As soon as Zuckerberg said this, the media reporters and the audience were shocked!

As everyone knows, there are probably few people in the world who will patiently read the so-called user service agreement and user instructions when registering a software. Although Zuckerberg's reason is reasonable and legal, it is not reasonable, but in such an ungrateful situation, he can only choose the former.

Then, another congressman asked Zuckerberg what he thought about his employees reselling user data to the outside world. Another congressman asked how Facebook planned to deal with and compensate the losses of some Facebook users, including the private photos of some stars, which were stolen and circulated on the Internet.

Fortunately, before Zuckerberg came, he and the team had analyzed and discussed these questions, so there were no mistakes in his answers. Now Zuckerberg's measures are to admit his mistakes to the questions accused by lawmakers and compensate Facebook users and the public for the losses suffered by the data crisis!

Seeing that the hearing was coming to an end, Zuckerberg thought that the five hour torture and interrogation journey was finally coming to an end. Clinker, at this time, a female Congresswoman wearing glasses asked another question that surprised Zuckerberg and the media reporters and audience, but held her breath.

The Congresswoman asked:

"Is there racial discrimination on Facebook?"