This is all a crock. The 2016 elections were no more influenced by social media than by television commercials.

With the one exception being that Candidate Trump used Twitter rather than press releases.

Via Zero

Hedge: Zuckerberg Has Decided To Testify Before Congress | Zero Hedge

If we had to guess, we’d be willing to venture that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the most popular man in Parliament right about now.

After earlier confirming that he would send one of his top deputies to testify to British MPs, Facebook has apparently leaked to CNN that Zuckerberg will, in fact, make time to testify before lawmakers during the coming weeks.

Facebook is already plotting its strategy for the meeting and telling CNN that the pressure from the public (not to mention lawmakers desperately looking for a pariah) has become to intense, and the CEO wouldn’t risk rocking the boat.

CNN’s anonymous sources (presumably from within the Facebook comms department) believe Zuckerberg’s willingness to testify will also put pressure on Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to join him. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has officially invited all three CEOs to a hearing on data privacy on April 10.

Zuckerberg’s decision means that Washington – not London – will be the site of the great public inquest into technology firms and their leveraging of sensitive user data for commercial purposes.