Mark Zuckerberg’s pre-released testimony to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce left little doubt that he’d admit that Facebook made a huge “big mistake” by not taking users’ data privacy seriously enough. This lapse led to the massive privacy breach that resulted in Cambridge Analytica harvesting 87 million profiles (and in a late-breaking update, their private messages as well), which is nearly half of all Facebook users, although almost all 2 billion profiles have been scraped in some way.
Needless to say, folks don’t have much sympathy for Zuck right now, and even if nothing terribly revealing has surfaced during the congressional grilling as of yet (although GOP Sen. John Thune got confrontational), people having great fun watching a billionaire — one whose apology tour has grown a little punchy — squirm. And after news of a class-action lawsuit surfaced, Zuck would probably rather be anywhere else right now than Capitol Hill with cameras everywhere.
Aside from “booster seat” jokes (really, was he using one?), plenty of people are roasting the heck out of Zuckerberg’s miserable expression. He’s not enjoying this, but many other people are.
https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/983785878442029056
That face when you just wanted a faster way to rank girls by looks and ended up installing a fascist government in the most powerful country on earth pic.twitter.com/VEaQjz9Z6s
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) April 10, 2018
This is what internal screaming looks like.
#Facebook #Zuckerberg pic.twitter.com/02uuiCF65M— James (@JamesFl) April 10, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg looking like he ain’t slept since MySpace pic.twitter.com/7gT0kVvaUQ
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/NyashaJunior/status/983789837672206336
A live look at the #Zuckerberg questioning pic.twitter.com/KgVCa5IifU
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) April 10, 2018
#zuckerberg : i will have my team get back to you.
His team: pic.twitter.com/IdboLfqSni
— Gabriel LN (@_lo_kee) April 10, 2018
#Zuckerberg clearly should’ve sent Jesse Eisenberg in his place. pic.twitter.com/ixeDTsilS8
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/Queen_UK/status/983788495595589633
And of course, there were plenty of obligatory jokes about Zuckerberg being a robot or Children of the Corn character.
#Zuckerberg right now testifying on Capitol Hill pic.twitter.com/0M5btVFNyr
— Punxsutawney Trill (@FrankenBimmer) April 10, 2018
Somebody spill something on Mark #Zuckerberg already – I want to see him short circuit on national TV. pic.twitter.com/N6ZEGUgo5K
— Rich Goeckel (@RichGoeckel) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/ImJustAMel/status/983790964492955649
Here’s a look at that booster seat again. Pretty wild, huh?
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/983791801009131521
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/983779936040357889