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A Founder of NewCo, sovrn, Federated Media, Web 2 Summit, Industry Standard, Wired; investor & writer on Media, Tech, Culture, Business. Producer, Shift Forum

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  1. 6 hours ago

    Somehow this thread got bifurcated and therefore makes no sense. Either I suck at Twitter (utterly possible) or...well. I'll just write a post about all this. Much easier, because I can EDIT MY WORK.

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  2. 7 hours ago

    Oh and is on Commerce - and he has every reason to go rogue if he feels like it.

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  3. 7 hours ago

    The Commerce Committee has 27 members, a few duplicates from Judiciary, but we're talking two score Senators with agendas in one meeting. Not since Gates in the late 90s have the stakes been this high in one tech company.

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  4. 7 hours ago

    Judiciary alone has 21 members, including and - all of whom have agendas, conflicts, and a reason to shine. And those are just (some of) the dems. Yes, too, but.

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  5. 7 hours ago

    The Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees are no joke. Having both in the room is going to be something of a clusterf*ck.

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Of course, there's the question of timelines, which feels more investigative, but timelines on many of the recent revelations are not adding up (for now), and some Congressfolk love to work timeline based lines of questioning. So there's that.

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  7. 7 hours ago

    IE: "Mr. Z, do you acknowledge that the issues raised by the recent controversy are not ones that one company, or one man, can possibly solve? That you need to put country and humanity before the interests of your company, and therefore not claim you can fix this yourself?"

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  8. 7 hours ago

    So that's my question for you all: What questions might bring the real Mark Zuckerberg out? I think we have a right to really connect to this man, as a public good at this point. No?

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  9. 7 hours ago

    This makes me think that he was buying time while his team worked backchannels to make sure the testimony was going to be at least somewhat manageable, if not entirely choreographed. Which the last one was (with the counsels from G, Twitter, FB).

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  10. 7 hours ago

    I've found that Mssr. Z. tends to evade and keep all options open, not commit to a POV, until forced to do so. Recall how he responded to the idea of testifying back on March 21?

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  11. 7 hours ago

    (And by Axios I meant sorry about that. Too many tabs open)

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  12. 7 hours ago

    For background, read this Axios summary of his upcoming testimony, and which committees, which in fact does matter a lot.

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  13. 7 hours ago

    OK Twitter, let's work together, shall we? Let's make a list of questions you want to answer at Senate & House hearings next week. Let's make this thoughtful, shall we? I'll update it on NewCoShift in relative realtime. Reply on thread, as will I.

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  14. 12 hours ago

    What bugs me the most about every Zuck interview I've seen is that there are NO follow ups, which means it's easy to not answer a question directly.

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  15. 13 hours ago

    Go Go!

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  16. Apr 4

    . on why is going to win. “The rationalization of publishing” by

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  17. Apr 4

    A call to to not be pushed around by from CEO Scott Howe

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  18. Apr 4

    Inspiring conversation with “This Mayor Runs A Trillion Dollar Economy” — NewCo

    “…In my city, 63 percent of our main street businesses are started by immigrants. 63 percent, a third of our GDP. 61 percent of us are immigrants or the children of immigrants. It's almost a non-issue. I try not to get too dragged down by rhetoric and threats from DC, including their definition…” from “This Mayor Runs A Trillion Dollar Economy” by NewCo.
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  19. Apr 3

    “This Mayor Runs A Trillion Dollar Economy” by NewCo

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    People are starting to question whether the decisions being made on their behalf by these are really in their best interest, or in the interest of the greater community.

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