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Zuckerberg in the Hot Seat, Again
On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to defend his company's controversial cryptocurrency project, Libra. Lawmakers took the opportunity to grill Zuckerberg on Facebook's outsized role in democracy and American politics.
On the segment:
Andrew Marantz, staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, 2019).