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Six takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's time in the Senate spotlight

While Zuckerberg avoided major blunders, it was clear after his first day of testimony that there's a growing appetite to impose laws that would govern the behavior of Facebook

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits down following a break to resume testifying before a joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo: Reuters

Sarah Frier, Nico Grant and Selina Wang | Bloomberg
In some ways, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg might be relieved. He prepared for harder questions than he got during his first testimony before US lawmakers.

No senator asked him, for example, about whether he should resign from Facebook - a question Zuckerberg would have answered by saying he has solved big problems before, according to a snapshot of his notes from the Associated Press. Or about the fact that malicious actors may have abused Facebook’s search feature to scrape data on a majority of its 2 billion users, which, he would have explained, the company has resolved so it doesn’t

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