How to fix Facebook

Don't let Mark Zuckerberg talk his way out of this

A mechanic and the Facebook logo.
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Mark Zuckerberg is running the gauntlet in Washington this week. The Facebook CEO will appear before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday for a ritual pummeling by senators from both sides of the aisle over the social network's various scandals, from the user data allegedly scraped by Cambridge Analytica to Russian agents inflaming partisanship ahead of the 2016 election to fake news stories going viral. He then faces the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for another round of ritual pummeling on Wednesday.

But the American people's geriatric representation shouldn't just flail away blindly at the hoodie-wearing CEO. They need to land some good hits and not let him deflect, as his written testimony suggests he will try to do, with mea culpas and calls for more vigorous oversight by none other than he, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.