There is another round of big tech grilling in the US Congress, probably to no avail. Big Tech deserves to be blamed but these grilling politicians are for the show here and they prove how useless they are. Check the exchange between Senator Tom Cotton and Tiktok’s CEO.TikTok’s CEO can’t catch a break from xenophobia in Congress
In the meantime, Zuckerberg apologized again: Zuckerberg publicly apologises to families in tech grilling
Mark Zuckerberg has issued several public apologies throughout the years. Some of the notable apologies include the following:
– In 2007, Zuckerberg apologized for Facebook’s Beacon service, which tracked user purchases and activities on other sites and then published them on friends’ news feeds without their consent.
– In 2010, he apologized for calling Facebook users “dumb” and using profanity in text messages.
– In 2018, he apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying that Facebook has a “responsibility” to protect its users’ data, and that if it fails, “we don’t deserve to have the opportunity to serve people.”
– In 2022, he apologized to parents of bullied or driven-to-self-harm children via social media during a Senate hearing, saying “I’m sorry for everything you’ve been through. No one should go through what you and your families have suffered.”[1][2][3][4][5]Citations:
[1] https://apnews.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-apology-c7055b654f63a23d09b6a96388dfa2b4
[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/1/why-did-mark-zuckerberg-apologise-at-the-us-senate
[3] https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2024-02-01/mark-zuckerbergs-long-apology-tour-a-brief-history
[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-privacy-apologies.html
[5] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/mark-zuckerberg-apologizes-parents-online-child-safety-hearing-rcna136578