https://medium.com/enrique-dans/mark-zuckerberg-appears-before-the-us-senate-what-now-8ef047e922f6

Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the US Senate Committee on Trade, Science and Transport lasted for more than ten hours, producing some interesting conclusions, some strange moments, the biggest rise in the company’s stock for two years, and proof that many committee members, in addition to having received large financial contributions from Facebook for their campaigns, generally have very little knowledge of what Facebook is and what it really does.

One thing is clear: this is what happens when someone creates a very powerful platform to connect people and finances this through segmented advertising in a country where there are minimal privacy laws. If Mark Zuckerberg himself says he is still unable to understand what he has created and its impact, expecting a handful of US senators to do so and fix it, is optimistic, to say the least. His appearance can be watched in its entirety for those with the stomach to do so, along with full transcripts and even part of Zuckerberg’s notes, but the conclusions, I am afraid, the same: in a country, the US, where privacy is not is the object of excessive protection, asking the founder of Facebook to explain how his company works and should operate is patently absurd: what needs to be done first is to reach consensus as to what privacy is and how far we want to protect it, then pass the necessary laws, thus making it unequivocally clear to Facebook how it must operate.