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Welcome to Worst Hot Take of the Week – a column in which @MULLET_FAN_NEO crowns the wildest hot take of the week.
This week Mark Zuckerberg faced an unsparing cross-examination by lawmakers as he testified in front of the House of Representatives financial services committee, as Facebook seeks approval to launch its cryptocurrency project ‘Libra’. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats scrutinised the CEO over his companies past behaviour and hesitancy to fact-check political advertising.
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Gazing into his dead, blue eyes – completely destitute of charm and charisma – it was of no shock that people began to question, once again, if the cunt is even human at all. At times it felt like we were watching Edgar the Bug off Men in Black sat before Congress in a skin suit. I was genuinely surprised we didn't see him heaping spoonfuls of sugar into the water he was desperately necking back in-between answers.With another US presidential election ominously close, you’d hope that the man who has become the custodian of societal information for baby boomers might have some sort of control on the issue of intentional misinformation. When AOC asked hypothesised whether she would be able to run factually incorrect ads on Facebook, targeting political opponents in upcoming elections, to understand the bounds of what Facebook considers “fair game”, Zuckerberg said: “probably”.
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