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Democrats and Republicans Find A Common Enemy (Yes It’s Facebook)

Democrats and Republicans Find A Common Enemy (Yes It’s Facebook)

Over the past week, a whistleblower's revelations about Facebook, and an outage that brought the tech giant offline for hours, have given Congress some rare bipartisan common ground.

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

October 6, 202122m 38s

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Show Notes

 Over the past week, a whistleblower's revelations about Facebook and an outage that brought the tech giant offline for hours have given Congress some rare bipartisan common ground.

On Today's Show:
Cecilia Kang, national technology correspondent at The New York Times and co-author with Sheera Frenkel of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination (Harper, 2021), breaks down the key takeaways from yesterday's congressional hearings on the matter.