00:00This company and that guy are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.
00:06Listen, before I go on, I want to make something clear.
00:09Okay.
00:10I have a hunch you're not a fan of Facebook.
00:13But I am.
00:14I am here to help Facebook, not hurt it.
00:17Okay?
00:18You send me a message.
00:19What would you like to talk about?
00:25The chairman gavels a session to order.
00:29You'll read your opening statement, which we'll skip past for now.
00:32That's a separate session.
00:33And we'll move to witness questioning.
00:38Spell your name and state your current occupation for the record.
00:41M-A-R-K-Z-U-C-K-E-R-B-E-R-G.
00:44And your occupation?
00:48I'm a professional defendant.
00:49I ran classifiers on political groups where 30% of content hits multiple risk factors.
00:54Hang on.
00:55I don't understand what you're saying.
00:56Aren't you a tech reporter?
00:58Ish.
00:59Ish?
01:00These guys are counting on the next round of congressional testimony to make you likable,
01:03Mark.
01:04I'm happy to lend a hand, but I think you're doomed.
01:10This company and that guy are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.
01:16The fire hose of bad information you are injecting into the air supply is becoming jet-powered.
01:21I'm a free speech absolutist.
01:22I'm not the one who's lying.
01:24And I'm not stopping them from seeing someone who is.
01:27Anxiety, depression of teenage girls got worse as a result of time spent on the platform.
01:32Senior leadership knows and is doing nothing.
01:35I know there are easier enemies to make.
01:37The mafia would be an easier enemy to make.
01:40So what would you need?
01:41To stand up the story, the internal documents.
01:43This is a material violation of my NDA.
01:46We're twice as big as the biggest country on earth.
01:48We're not frightened of Congress.
01:49We're post-government around here.
01:51Please, please let me poke that.
01:53We have 102 hours to get everything.
01:56She's going to get sued into small pieces.
01:58I don't want to be made an example of by a guy with unlimited resources.
02:02Harm, I promise you, is imminent.
02:04Enough!
02:05People around here understand that when I say no, that's the end of the debate.
02:10I'm not two years out of a dorm room anymore, Charlie.
02:12Look around.
02:20I don't know what the girl thinks she's doing.
02:22She's disrupting.
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