Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in the hot seat in Congress this week, facing an hours-long interrogation by two Senate committees on Tuesday and another by a House committee on Wednesday. Zuckerberg was pressed on a number of issues, including data privacy, ad practices, and censorship of conservative content. The latter was badly needed, as new cases of Facebook unfairly censoring conservative and religious content pop up seemingly every week. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled Zuckerberg during the first day’s hearing, asking whether Facebook has ever censored Planned Parenthood or MoveOn.org: Then Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) challenged Zuckerberg on why Facebook should
Over the weekend President Donald Trump took to Twitter and made some very serious claims about former President Barack Obama. Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska became the first elected Republican to say that he will not support Donald Trump if he is the nominee, in a lengthy Facebook post. Sasse begins by debunking the inevitable attacks against him, pointing out he is not a career politicians, not part of the establishment, doesn’t care that much about job security, and got into politics as a Constitutional conservative determined to make Washington focus on the people’s priorities, not the lobbyists. And then he says this: Let’s begin by rejecting naïve purists: Politics has no angels. Politics is not about creating heaven on