Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress
Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress – April 10, 2018 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured 5 hours of questioning in front of a rare US Senate joint committee hearing this Tuesday answering questions about the misappropriation of up to 87 million users’ profile data by Cambridge Analytica and Russia’s use of the platform to spread propaganda and misinformation. On Wednesday April 11, he will appear again before Congress, this time in front of a House committee. That hearing could easily run as long as Tuesday’s affair, if not longer.
Here are the results of Reverse Speech analysis of his testimony that has been reviewed so far. We may have more later to post as the analysis continues.
Mark Zuckerberg – “I can’t be clearer on this topic. We don’t sell data. That’s not how advertising works ah, and I do think we could probably being doing clearer job [explaining that given the mis]-perceptions that are out there.” – Send in the big gun, your notes.
Mark Zuckerberg – “..we’ve limited it so now people can only bring their data when they go to an app ah, but that’s something a lot of people do on a daily basis is [sign into apps] and websites with their, with Facebook and that’s something that were, were…” – Spies in us.
Mark Zuckerberg – “Congressman, we have a number of measures in place to protect, uh, minors specifically. [We make it so that] adults can’t contact minors who they, they aren’t already friends with…” – Nervous, they damn you.
Mark Zuckerberg – “..it’s quite possible that we made a mistake and we’ll follow up afterwards to, on, on that. [Overall], yea I mean, we have, by the end of this year we’ll have about 20,000 people at the company…” – Horrible.
Mark Zuckerberg – “..ah, we took the step of fundamentally changing how the platform works so now uh, when you sign into an app you can bring [your information] and if a friend is also signed into the app, then we’ll, then the app can know that you’re friends…” – The sham of knowing.
Mark Zuckerberg – “..to your point about Cambridge University, what we found now is that there’s a whole program associated with Cambridge University where a number of researchers, not just Alexander Cogen although, to our current knowledge he’s the only one who [sold the data to Cambridge An]alytica, there were a number of other researchers who were building similar apps…” – I do make it a dated loss.
Mark Zuckerberg – “We do not allow hate [groups on Faceb]ook overall so, ah, if, if there’s a group that ah, their primary purpose or, or a large part of what they do is spreading hate we will ban them from the platform overall.” – Safe my spook.
Mark Zuckerberg – “For as long as Russia has people who are employed who are trying to perpetrate this kind of interference, ah, it will be hard for us to guarantee that we’re going to fully stop everything ah, but it’s an arms race [and I think that] we’re making ground and are doing better and better and are confident about how we’re going to be able to do that.” – I give fear on it.
Mark Zuckerberg – “[Yes, Congress]man, we believe that everyone around the world deserves good privacy controls.” – They’re not safe.
Mark Zuckerberg – “Congresswoman, I am not directly familiar with the, the de[tails of what you just said].” – Their city offer up a slice.
Mark Zuckerberg – “Congressman, I’m not, [I’m not familiar with all of the things the F]TC said although I am very familiar with the FTC order to consent itself.” – See favors, enough with the law, it’ll ruin the thunder.
Mark Zuckerberg – “..that when developers told us that they [weren’t going to sell data], that that was a good, good representation but one of the big lessons that we’ve learned here is that clearly we cannot ah, just take developers word for it, we need to go in and enforce that.” – Our dear loss, gonna go.
Mark Zuckerberg – “If you delete your account we immediately make it so that your account is um, is no longer available once your, once your done deleting it, um so no one can [find you on the service]. We wouldn’t be able to recreate your account from that…” – Subverse, I know enough.
Mark Zuckerberg – “It’s just the sheer volume of content on Facebook that we can’t, no amount of people that we can hire will be enough, we need to rely on and build [um, sophisticated] AI tools that can help us flag certain content.” – They could see the smut.
Mark Zuckerberg – “..but I don’t think that that’s incompatible with fundamentally at, at our core being a technology company where the main thing that we do is have [engineers and build products].” – Our blood in the syringe.
Mark Zuckerberg – “We need to make sure that people aren’t using it to harm other people or to spread [misinformation].” – The shame of my sin.
Mark Zuckerberg – “We’re now investigating eve[ry single app] that had access to a large amount of information in the past.” – I will miss you.