{"id":7202,"date":"2017-11-17T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2017-11-17T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:15:44","slug":"linked-tech-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/linked-tech-goes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Tech Goes to Washington&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2410,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2017\\\/tech-goes-to-washington&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250420091120\\\/https:\\\/\\\/stratechery.com\\\/2017\\\/tech-goes-to-washington\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:59:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-11 09:44:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 00:32:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 00:32:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2017\/tech-goes-to-washington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Stratechery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>What Kennedy surely realized \u2014 and what Stretch, apparently, did not \u2014 is that Facebook had already effectively answered Kennedy\u2019s question: the very act of investigating the accounts used by Russian intelligence entailed doing the sort of sleuthing that Kennedy wanted Stretch to say was possible. Facebook dived deep into an account by choice, came to understand everything about it, and then shut it down and delivered the results to Congress. It follows that Facebook could \u2014 not would, but could \u2014 do that to Senator Graham or anyone else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To be clear, Stretch made clear that Facebook did this because the accounts in question had been deemed inauthenetic; that removed all of the external legal, internal policy, and business model limitations that would prevent Facebook from doing such forensic work to an individual account.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Still, Kennedy\u2019s two lines of questions combined revealed the tech companies\u2019 testimony for the paradox it was: on the one hand, their sheer scale means it is impossible to fully stamp out activities like Russian meddling; on the other, that same scale means they all have the most intimate information on nearly everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope we continue to challenge technology companies just like we did oil, gas, power, telephone and insurance companies the last century. Technology companies are the most powerful on Earth and yet have zero oversight, regulations or laws to govern the kind of work they do. The power company has to go through a lot of red tape to simply move a piece of power-line and Facebook can run an analysis on 1 out of 3 people on earth and no one asks how or why.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Stratechery: What Kennedy surely realized \u2014 and what Stretch, apparently, did not \u2014 is that Facebook had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-11-17T15:15:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"a7592414-3826-4e59-bf85-48f1363b8824","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-11-17T15:15:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ap1kkFDgmTlm_hUjxNjuIJA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Sa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7558,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/linked-how-every-cross-posted-tweet-disappeared-from-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":7202,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;How every cross-posted tweet disappeared from Facebook&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"How every cross-posted tweet disappeared from Facebook -\u00a0Axios: \u201cFacebook had announced in January that it was removing a feature that allowed people to cross-post updates from Twitter.\u201d + \u201cWith the app\u2019s sole function eliminated, Twitter decided to delete it from the Facebook platform, having no reason to think that doing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6115,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/linked-reasons-not-to-use-facebook-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":7202,"position":1},"title":"Linked: Reasons not to use Facebook","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Stallman.org: Why you should not \"use\" (i.e., be used by) Facebook. I have never had a Facebook account. There is a Facebook account called \"Richard Stallman\", but it is an impostor. Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or Instagram) contributes to surveillance of that person. Please don't post\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7324,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/linked-instagram-is-turning-into-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":7202,"position":2},"title":"Linked: Instagram Is Turning Into Facebook","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Instagram Is Turning Into Facebook: But I still don\u2019t see ads in my Instagram feed. Literally none. This might be because I don\u2019t have a Facebook account, or might be because my Instagram account is flagged in some sort of hidden way because of my prominence from here at Daring\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6962,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/linked-how-facebook-is-making-membership-a-prerequisite-to-everyday-existence\/","url_meta":{"origin":7202,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;How Facebook Is Making Membership a Prerequisite to Everyday Existence&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Bold Italic(which is now also a medium blog\u2026the good ones keep switching to this for-profit platform): However, City CarShare was recently bought by a corporation, Getaround. And Getaround built its platform on top of Facebook. So when I went to migrate my account over to them, I found\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6970,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/14\/linked-fuck-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":7202,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;F*** Facebook&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via DaringFireball: I\u2019ve made exceptions a handful of times over the years, but as a general rule I refuse to link to anything on Facebook either, for the same reasons as Dave. Last week I linked to screenshots of a Facebook post to avoid linking to the original. The original\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6197,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/linked-news-publishers-facebook-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":7202,"position":5},"title":"Linked: \u201cNews Publishers\u2019 Facebook\u00a0Problem\u201d","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Monday Note: Last year, I had a discussion with the publisher of a renowned investigative US media site. 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