Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018.

Today, another chip flaw is found. Privacy activists turn their attention to Amazon. ZTE might be

saved by the Trump administration. Zuckerberg's European sojourn is a damp squib.

And now you can mute annoying people on Instagram. Here's what you miss

today in the format of the meeting.

Roundtable style EU legislators spent the first hour of the event taking turns posing questions,

but Zuckerberg was only required to answer them once everyone was done.

So with just a half an hour of the schedule remaining,

he was essentially able to cherry-pick the questions he wanted to answer and frankly the answers were the same he has given over and over again since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke

Some of the legislators seemed to be upset that their questions weren't answered.

Quote, I asked you six yes or no questions and got not a single answer and of course, well, you asked for this format for a reason." End quote.

That was what one member of parliament shouted at Zuckerberg.

Well, I guess we know why Zuckerberg agreed to make this appearance,

but not go before British Parliament,

where, in theory, questioning would have been a little more contentious.

And frankly, EU legislators, the fact that you made the US Congress look like downright

hard-boiled district attorneys in comparison is really saying

something.

Given the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe not for vacation but because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

I thought that Will Aramis had a opinion piece up in slate that made an interesting point.

I think it's summed up by his tweet about the piece, quote,

Facebook handed data to shady third parties about your Facebook likes and profiles.

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