It was an astounding moment in American corporate history. A CEO of one of the world’s most powerful companies sat dumbfounded, stammering, unable to address predictable questions from a member of Congress who is well known to be as prepared and relentless in her interrogations as any politician in America.

“Would I be able to run advertisements on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal? I mean, if you’re not fact-checking political advertisements, I’m just trying to understand the bounds here—what’s fair game?” asked US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a hearing of the House Banking Committee last week.

“Congresswoman, I don’t know the answer to that off the top of my head, I think probably,” replied Mark Zuckerberg, trying his best to explain what has been one of the most confusing and controversial of a series of new Facebook changes this year.

“You don’t know if I’ll be able to do that?” Ocasio-Cortez asked.

“I think probably,” Zuckerberg said.

It got worse from there. The hearing was supposed to be about Libra, Facebook’s ill-fated plan to offer a global financial transfer and transaction systems backed up by an independent cryptocurrency.

By placing Zuckerberg at that table, before all those cameras, yet again, Facebook basically asked to have its CEO schooled on a completely different matter by a much smarter person.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.wired.com