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Zuck Everlasting

Answering to Congress isn’t a good look for any CEO, but Facebook is politically important to the very people who will be asking the questions.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at a meeting with Florida Sen. Bill Nelson on Monday in Washington.

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It’s a critical week for Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has two dates with Congress, where he’ll be answering questions on the company’s loss of millions of its users’ data to Cambridge Analytica. Slate writer April Glaser tells us what to expect ahead of the hearings.

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