Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, April 10th, 2018.

Today Mr Zuckerberg goes to Washington, taking the temperature of Facebook employees, a fake

Black Lives Matter page, YouTube video vandalization, a new Instagram portrait mode, and a museum of lost sounds.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress today.

In fact, as I'm recording this, the testimony is still ongoing. Most observers on Twitter, as I was watching,

seemed to think that he did reasonably well, and instead were mostly appalled by the

senator's general lack of

understanding of basic ways that the internet functions.

Former advisor to President Obama Dan Fyfer tweeted, quote,

the congressional staff that prepped these senators for this hearing didn't do a great job.

These questions are ill-informed and nonsensical, end quote.

But investors seem to think that Zuckerberg did well. Facebook's stock closed up 4.5% at the end of

trading today. In his opening statement before the Senate committee, Zuckerberg said

quote, it's clear now that we didn't do enough to

prevent these tools from being used for harm as well that goes for fake news

foreign interference in elections and hate speech as well as developers and data privacy.

We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake.

It was my mistake and I'm sorry. I started Facebook. I run it and I'm responsible for what happens here end quote

Echoing talking points from previous statements

Zuckerberg continued later on, quote,

it's not enough to just connect people.

We have to make sure those connections are positive.

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