{"id":57227,"date":"2018-04-13T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/?p=57227"},"modified":"2023-04-01T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T18:44:07","slug":"the-weirdest-of-the-zuckerberg-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/the-weirdest-of-the-zuckerberg-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WEIRDEST OF THE ZUCKERBERG HEARING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Facebook King, Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congressional members regarding the Cambridge Analytica data breach and his company&#8217;s role in it. The purpose of the hearing was to attain clarity on the breach and basically figure whether Facebook&#8217;s growth has become a threat to this country. At least, we assumed as much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thought-catalog-609285-unsplash.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57236\" src=\"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thought-catalog-609285-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also assumed a hearing of this magnitude, hosted by political bodies of such grand stature, would be conducted with all the professionalism it deserved. Throughout the two day hearing, that wasn&#8217;t always the case. Members of Congress, at times, appeared to be more Zuckerberg\/Facebook fan than the antagonist. Some brought up their children&#8217;s social media habits and interests they&#8217;ve personally shared on FB. Others made bad jokes. Many seemed severely uneducated on modern technology. For a highlight reel of the awkward, check out The Verge&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/11\/17224184\/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-congress-senators\">11 weirdest soundbites<\/a> from the Zuckerberg hearing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read our\u00a0guide, <a href=\"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/how-to-maintain-your-sanity-while-being-active-on-social-media\/\">How to Stay Sane on Social Media here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Facebook King, Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congressional members regarding the Cambridge Analytica data breach and his company&#8217;s role in it. The purpose of the hearing was to attain clarity on the breach and basically figure whether Facebook&#8217;s growth has become a threat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":57235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69599,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57227\/revisions\/69599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}