Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, began two days of marathon hearings in Washington, answering tough questions on the company’s mishandling of data. But the hours of testimony about the social media company’s practices seemed to focus on a larger, more difficult question: What is Facebook, exactly? Guest: Kevin Roose, who writes about technology for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarrow.
0:32.9	This is The Daily.
0:39.5	Today, day one of Mark Zuckerberg's two-day marathon hearings in Washington.
0:46.3	Behind the hours of questioning about Facebook's practices was a larger and more difficult
0:53.0	to answer question.
0:55.0	One is this thing.
0:57.6	It's Wednesday, April 11th.
1:01.1	So I don't go to a lot of congressional hearings.
1:03.6	In fact, this is my first congressional hearing in DC.
1:06.7	And so I didn't know what to expect.
1:08.3	I showed up a few hours early and it was a total zoo.
1:19.8	Like I cannot tell you how many hundreds of people were waiting outside this tiny little
1:24.7	hearing room.
1:25.7	Kevin Rus was at the hearing on Tuesday.
1:28.2	And there were protesters in costumes.
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