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We’re on to housing discrimination issues. Rep. Lacy Clay asks if Facebook would comply with any future subpoenas or document requests that could shed light on housing advertisers’ behavior. Zuckerberg assents, after a brief pause. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: Zuckerberg's reaction after a five minute put-down from Rep. @BradSherman https://t.co/ibtg9ZIwve — PolitiTweet.org

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In a searing attack on Zuckerberg, Rep. Brad Sherman said Meeks had “called your bluff” on helping the unbanked. Sherman accused Zuckerberg, one of the world’s wealthiest men, of trying to “hide behind the poorest people in the world” to justify the Libra project. — PolitiTweet.org

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Posey asks Zuck if he can be 100% sure vaccines don’t pose a risk, and if he can’t, why Facebook won’t let “somebody have the opportunity to express an opinion different from yours” — Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t promote anti-vax content but doesn’t stop people from finding it. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Wait… is Rep. Posey challenging Facebook by advancing an anti-vax argument? — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. Meeks is slamming Facebook for not doing more to support the existing infrastructure to help the unbanked, such as minority depository institutions, and instead embarking on a massively ambitious project (or “risky,” in Zuckerberg’s own words). — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Zuckerberg declined to say he would wait for Congress to develop legislation on Libra before moving forward with the project. This gives more definition to the limits of what Facebook means when it says it won’t move ahead until policymakers’ concerns are addressed. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. Wagner asks Zuckerberg a good question: Why did MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and others drop out of the Libra Association? Zuckerberg: “I think because it’s a risky project." — PolitiTweet.org

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But Waters is showing she perhaps isn’t familiar with Facebook’s policies here — asking whether non-politicians’s ads are fact-checked, which they are. — PolitiTweet.org

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Waters: “How does this new policy benefit you? It seems a policy that allows politicians to lie, mislead and deceive would allow Facebook to sell more ads, thus making the company more money." — PolitiTweet.org

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Waters’s first question targets Facebook’s policy on politicians’ ads. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @viaCristiano: 🚨 Zuckerberg has landed on Capitol Hill https://t.co/9KoFXRbbrh — PolitiTweet.org

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Spotted at DCA: License plate that reads “18USC17.” Which, naturally: https://t.co/AYOIoCgDwI https://t.co/niJI4c6Buq — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@jsimpsonDC The flight I was supposed to be on got delayed. So was the one that’s taking off now. — PolitiTweet.org

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When you arrive at your gate just early enough to be rebooked onto the last remaining seat of the shuttle that precedes yours by a whole two hours https://t.co/jimynxEyJD — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

As Mark Zuckerberg heads back to Capitol Hill tomorrow, Facebook is under greater scrutiny than ever. Here’s a look at what awaits him in Congress: https://t.co/POcofeBECj — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Here’s our story on Facebook’s mounting antitrust scrutiny by state AGs, which follows a meeting yesterday involving state and federal officials to discuss possible legal theories for a future potential lawsuit: https://t.co/gAPcuPDgZl — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

As many as 47 state attorneys general are now investigating Facebook, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James. — PolitiTweet.org

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Another person described the meeting as a “get your grounding” session for staffers who are less familiar with the tech space. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser moderated one of the panels, I’m told, and a future event is in the works that’ll scrutinize Google. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

The nearly six-hour meeting at NY AG Letitia James’ offices involved at least a dozen states, according to an estimate by a person who was in the room. Topics included Facebook’s handling of user data, its acquisition strategy and more. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

A group of state AGs and federal antitrust officials met yesterday in New York to discuss Facebook and possible legal theories that could underpin a future case against the company, I’m told by several people familiar with the matter. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Meanwhile, Facebook has an ongoing effort to figure out how to better implement data portability. In September, it released a white paper seeking public feedback on the idea in detail. My colleague @PoppyHarlowCNN will be chatting with @SenBlumenthal later this AM. Tune in! — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Er, that's “many other" tech firms. Not “other many." — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook and other many tech firms support data portability in principle, and in practice to some extent. You can already download your data from many of these services, but right now there’s not much of a framework to directly transfer the data to a rival platform. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Under the bill, tech companies would have to offer “interoperable interfaces” that let consumers, or a trusted third party registered with the FTC acting on their behalf, manage their personal information. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Sens. Warner, Blumenthal and Hawley are rolling out a new bill today that’d force companies like Facebook to give users the ability to transfer their data to competing services, a concept known as "data portability.” — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Biden is fundraising off of @donie's reporting on the return of Russian Internet trolls — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s the part of the call transcript where Mark Zuckerberg addresses his private job-candidate referral to the Buttigieg campaign: https://t.co/xs9jZYnQKd https://t.co/Keg8ITE0pm — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Warren was asked about Zuckerberg privately emailing Buttigieg’s campaign to recommend a job candidate who was later hired. Warren says Zuckerberg "runs a company that has too much political power." https://t.co/9Sq48HsD3K — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Russian trolls are back and trying to target the 2020 elections, Facebook says: https://t.co/QelNs58GgH via @donie — PolitiTweet.org