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I just keep reading this line over and over and can’t stop. https://t.co/plpMiA3zlu https://t.co/m2izAp9FyY — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HawleyMO: Zuck went on to compare Chinese censorship rules on Tiananmen & Uyghurs to Germany’s rules against Holocaust denial. Both jus… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarahfrier: Behold Mark Zuckerberg’s revised origin story for Facebook, as a way to give people voice during the Iraq war. (And compare… — PolitiTweet.org

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@haroldfeld I thought a lot of the questions were deep and substantive. — PolitiTweet.org

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“...will ensure a diversity of questions and topics. Facebook representatives will not be permitted to veto any questions or topics” when I asked about this. — PolitiTweet.org

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University spokeswoman Meghan Dubyak emailed earlier: “Questions presented to Mr. Zuckerberg will come from Georgetown University students (including student journalists) faculty, and staff. A question committee (composed of representatives from the aforementioned groups)...” 1/2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Did you watch Zuckerberg’s remarks? What did you think? — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s a wrap. In general, he covered a lot of the same talking points but I think the biggest takeaway today was his framing, which just really illustrates how he views himself and the company in relation to everything going on around him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Faced with two questions — one about bias against conservatives and one about Facebook’s outreach to conservatives — Zuckerberg quips, to laughter: “I think it would be hard to be biased against both sides." — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg’s says we need to “get through this” challenging period without abandoning free-speech principles. Framing this as a critical historical moment helps breathe life into Zuckerberg’s overall case that he’s involved in an epic, centuries-long struggle of ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

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Over 100 students submitted questions to Zuckerberg. Many have to do with “Facebook’s responsibilities” — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg acknowledges that another threat to freedom of expression are the platforms themselves, “including us.” Which is giving him the opportunity to pivot and pitch Facebook’s forthcoming Oversight Board. — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg appears to be driving toward another argument Facebook has long made: Tech needs to be free in the US in order to continue leading on innovation in the face of advances by China. — PolitiTweet.org

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More than 35,000 people at Facebook work on security now, Zuckerberg says, and the company spends as much on security today as it brought in in revenue pre-IPO. — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg is arguing that the situation facing his company today is the latest in a long historical pattern of society knee-jerkily “pulling back on free expression” during moments of social tension. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilenaRodban Oh, I’m perfectly happy in a down jacket! Just reporting what others have said about the conditions in here. — PolitiTweet.org

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It is also freezing in here. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s a packed auditorium now for Zuckerberg’s speech, which is set to begin in a little under 10 minutes. We’ve been told the whole thing, including student Q&A, will be roughly an hour. No questions allowed from the press. https://t.co/CXO8p4Rup0 — PolitiTweet.org

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So like, yes, if campaigning is different now — and reasonable people can disagree — then it’s on you to figure out how to work within that new system to achieve the same result. That’s what campaigning is. — PolitiTweet.org

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In some ways, complaining about it isn’t very helpful. Radio and TV each had its own effect on candidate behavior, and it’s not like we’re about to suddenly un-invent social media. — PolitiTweet.org

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Even if you could wave a wand and eliminate all disinformation, meddling, or what have you tomorrow, you’d still be left with this basic incentive that’s inherent to the medium: https://t.co/GVKaGsTdru https://t.co/lIPZPaP7aN — PolitiTweet.org

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Just cut to the chase and give me the Forever Roll XXXL MAX already — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe it’s weird that *corporations* are recording *so much* of human activity for forever. But the act of preserving things for posterity isn’t rare! Clay tablets, the Library of Alexandria, oral histories, the list goes on. — PolitiTweet.org

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Part of the show’s purpose, she said, was to get people to think about the weirdness of things being recorded forever, and how rare that is in human history. — PolitiTweet.org

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There was a part of the show where they interview a playwright who’s got an actual show in DC right now about the right to be forgotten. Only in DC, lol — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s the room where Zuckerberg will be speaking in a couple of hours. A handful of reporters are here already. https://t.co/uYGnn8kNXS — PolitiTweet.org

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@donie @1a Damnit no! But I’m tweeting about it! — PolitiTweet.org

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So I was just in a Lyft listening to @1a about the right to be forgotten while heading to a speech by Facebook’s CEO about the freedom of expression. Today is just coming up 100 percent tech. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Intuit recognized that its success depended on two parallel missions: stoking innovation in Silicon Valley while stifling it in Washington.” https://t.co/fXtElKN5Pb — PolitiTweet.org

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Chris Hughes is helping to launch a $10 million “anti-monopoly” fund that’ll support consumer groups and academic research into market dominance: https://t.co/lIJL1t0BYF — PolitiTweet.org