Congress Called. They Want Our Data Back.
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🗓️ 10 April 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus bring us an early-week show in anticipation of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress Tuesday and Wednesday (which also means we will have a show recapping the hearings later this week). The hosts speak with members of Congress from both sides of the aisle who will be questioning Zuckerberg on Wednesday at his second hearing in Congress this week. They speak with Pennsylvania republican Congressman Ryan Costello, and two democratic Congressman from California; Jerry McNerney and Raul Ruiz. Each of these politicians are on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which will be questioning Mark Zuckerberg after his first round of questioning from the Senate.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:10.6 | And I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to If Then. |
| 0:25.4 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, |
| 0:28.9 | a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:32.1 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Monday, April 9th. |
| 0:38.9 | And yes, we're recording early this week in anticipation of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress this week. |
| 0:43.5 | This is a very big deal in our little news world. That also means we will have a show recapping the hearings later this week. But today, we have interviews with members of Congress |
| 0:48.2 | from both sides of the aisle who will be questioning Zuckerberg on Wednesday at his second |
| 0:52.5 | hearing in Congress this week. |
| 0:58.8 | That's right. We'll be speaking with Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Ryan Costello, |
| 1:04.1 | Democratic Congressman Jerry McNerney from California, and Democratic Congressman Ruiz, |
| 1:08.6 | also from California. These politicians are on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, |
| 1:15.1 | which will be questioning Mark Zuckerberg after his first round of questioning from the Senate. Here's a clip with my first interview with Representative Costello on what he's expecting to come out of these hearings. No one should |
| 1:19.5 | mistake this hearing as being a match that gets lit for some robust regulation that has clarity and that everyone agrees with. I don't see that happening. |
| 1:30.3 | All right, April, good to talk to you as always. How are you today? I am good. Good to open the week with |
| 1:34.4 | you, too, Will. How are you doing? I'm doing well. It is an unseasonably balmy 80 degrees down here in |
| 1:40.6 | Santa Barbara today. I have a feeling it's going to feel hotter than that for Mark Zuckerberg |
| 1:44.6 | when he's on Capitol Hill this week. Zuckerberg is making his whirlwind tour of D.C. prompted by the |
| 1:50.0 | Cambridge Analytica scandal. That's the one you've no doubt heard about by now in which Facebook says |
| 1:54.9 | the data of 87 million users was harvested by the political consultancy that worked on behalf of |
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