You’d think being the fifth richest person in the world would mean you could do whatever you want whenever you want. Turns out, however, if your social media website sold out its users’ data so their personal information could be mined by an evil company working on behalf of a dictatorship to install their chosen candidate as the leader of the free world by individually exploiting voters worst fears, well then it’s a whole thing.
when everything's fine and you feel great pic.twitter.com/d8wenWQfd5
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) April 10, 2018
But having to answer some ineffective questions by a group of mostly confused old white men who don’t know how to turn on their computers isn’t all that terrible. But you know what is bad? Getting roasted by the entire internet for your awkward, robotic testimony to the United States senate. Because while Mark Zuckerberg had to answer for his Facebook‘s serious breaches of trust and amoral business decisions, plenty of people had fun with it. So to briefly ignore the horrible dystopian implications it all had for our future, and to give ourselves a temporary reprieve from the never-ending nightmare of the modern world, here are the best reactions to his testimony.
Mark Zuckerberg: Definitely a Real Human
https://twitter.com/thecultureofme/status/983779618615431168
https://twitter.com/AWolfeful/status/983780975225192448
Senator: “You insist that you’re human.. could I ask you to walk over here and demonstrate that for me?â€
Mark #Zuckerberg: pic.twitter.com/l0GC4sCgCm
— Mark Zuckerberg Memes (@ZuckerbergMemes) April 10, 2018
Hello, I am Mark Zuckerberg. A human dressed me in this tie to seem approachable.
— Futurism (@futurism) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/Mechacomfy/status/983812143337410560
I made the Zuckerberg testimony bingo board so you don't have to. pic.twitter.com/dsuli2qEMo
— Molly McGlew (@MollyMcGlew) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/misterpatches/status/983816353353273345
Does This Look “Suit” Him?
When your normal look is a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, and you aren’t exactly known for your warmth, it can be jarring for people to suddenly see you in a suit trying to appear professional.
https://twitter.com/IfyNwadiwe/status/983779196223631361
https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/983785878442029056
LOL does he get a kiddie restaurant placemat to draw on with that booster seat (from @KaivanShroff) pic.twitter.com/PEcOUnKMbZ
— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) April 10, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg sounds like a kid at his first Model UN conference who has clearly only read his country’s Wikipedia page the night before committee and is relying solely on his knowledge of procedure.
— Erin Vail (@vailerin32) April 10, 2018
That face when you just wanted a faster way to rank girls by looks and ended up installing a fascist government in the most powerful country on earth pic.twitter.com/VEaQjz9Z6s
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) April 10, 2018
Haven’t We Seen This Before?
Zuckerberg had a very famous hearing we’ve all seen, right?
anyway, here's zuckerberg's arrival set to the radiohead cover from "the social network" trailer pic.twitter.com/wsuA8GaVFY
— David Mack (@davidmackau) April 10, 2018
Watching this Zuckerberg thing and was not expecting to see the Winklevoss twins pop up behind him playing shirtless racquetball
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/983812382110740480
How many senators would have noticed if Mark Zuckerberg had sent Jesse Eisenberg in his place? Less than half, right?
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) April 10, 2018
I'd bet a large amount of money that the extent of at least one of these senators' research for this hearing was just watching The Social Network last night and casually scrolling Facebook this morning.
— Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) April 10, 2018
It's all happening so fast. #MarkZuckerberg pic.twitter.com/5mxQ9L7FOe
— Molly McGlew (@MollyMcGlew) April 10, 2018
Not Great, Senators!
Zuckerberg might not have even had the worst performance during the hearing. That (dis)honor goes to the Senators who seemed to be in way over their heads talking about how Facebook was weaponized.
“Mr. Zuckerberg, I recently took a test on your site that said my Saved By The Bell character was Screech. I ask you, sir, do you feel I am Screech?†pic.twitter.com/zg6SDQcOhL
— McNeil (@Reflog_18) April 10, 2018
How the government sounds trying to talk about Facebook. #Zuckerberg pic.twitter.com/tt00NBCoI7
— Cycle (@bycycle) April 10, 2018
It would be cool to see Zuckerberg questioned by people who know how Facebook works
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/bulkUSBchargers/status/983784113109905408
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/983787717153710080
“Mr. Zuckerberg, can you explain how I’ve been on Facebook for ten years and yet still do not have one friend request accepted?†#ZuckerbergTestimony pic.twitter.com/gPJu9V76l1
— Samantha Bee (@realsambee) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/983801953883951104
Mark Zuckerberg getting The Real Facebook Experience in listening to Sen. Chuck Grassley, an 84yo man who cannot type and is confused and upset by everything he sees, just kind of rattling on about shit.
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 10, 2018
Not a single Senator has the stones to ask Mark Zuckerberg to take a quiz to see which 90210 character he is.
— McNeil (@Reflog_18) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/983817019513548800
senator: my aides have given me this complex multi-part question to read to you in a halting and uncertain voice
zuckerberg: oh no don't worry about that, our new motto is 'we fixed it'
senator: that sounds wrong but i don't know what to ask— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/RogueSNRadvisor/status/983813531609939974
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/983793707634880512
Things are getting heated at the Zuckerberg hearing on the Hill, if this transcript clip is any indication. pic.twitter.com/MrnxHf4pFe
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) April 10, 2018
“Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine i recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line. Is that the same as Facebook?†pic.twitter.com/U7pqpUhEhQ
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 10, 2018
We Chose Poorly
A theory: Facebook is bad and we should have chosen another platform to post cat videos.
tfw you aren't being grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee pic.twitter.com/0gbOmDtJq8
— Jeffrey Young @jeffreyyoung.bsky.social (@JeffYoung) April 10, 2018
We really should have stayed on Myspace tho.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) April 10, 2018
When you poke her but she doesn’t poke back. pic.twitter.com/yxJ07O3mw3
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) April 10, 2018
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https://twitter.com/Diane_7A/status/983814503484846080
https://twitter.com/A_Merritt/status/983793449790070785
Of course we all know who the joke is really on: all of us.
https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/983816867516055554
https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/983778908825931776
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