When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee last week, legislators treated the Facebook CEO like he was getting put in timeout. “Have you learned that you should not lie?” asked Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez in the tone of a scolding kindergarten teacher.
Shaming the CEOs of America’s largest tech companies — Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and YouTube are the usual targets — has become all too fashionable on both sides of the political spectrum. Everyone from radio host Dennis Prager to Elizabeth Warren has no shortage of bones to pick with Big Tech, whether over political bias and censorship, screen-addicted teens, election interference, pornography, sex trafficking, or a dozen other things.
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