--- title: The Internet's Best Jokes on the Mark Zuckerberg Testimony description: As Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, people flocked to social media to crack jokes. canonical: https://time.com/5235340/mark-zuckerberg-testimony-cambridge-analytica/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-10T20:51:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:05:44.492Z og:title: Mark Zuckerberg's Testimony Is Bringing Out the Internet's Best Facebook Jokes og:description: The Facebook CEO is facing a two-day congressional inquisition og:url: https://time.com/5235340/mark-zuckerberg-testimony-cambridge-analytica/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe9f38af66176f9/69892d440a4a22ecbb9d25b1/mark-zuckerberg-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Testifies At Joint Senate Commerce/Judiciary Hearing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mark Zuckerberg's Testimony Is Bringing Out the Internet's Best Facebook Jokes twitter:description: The Facebook CEO is facing a two-day congressional inquisition twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe9f38af66176f9/69892d440a4a22ecbb9d25b1/mark-zuckerberg-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mark Zuckerberg's Testimony Is Bringing Out the Internet's Best Facebook Jokes > Sponsored content. 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In his first appearance before Congress since he launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room 14 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg took responsibility on Tuesday afternoon for how his social network has been improperly used for political means_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 10, 2018 8:51 PM UTC In his first appearance before Congress since he launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room 14 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg took responsibility on Tuesday afternoon for how his social network has been improperly used for political means  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 10, 2018 8:51 PM UTC As [Mark Zuckerberg](http://time.com/5235181/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-congress-testimony-sorry/) testified [before Congress](http://time.com/5234567/mark-zuckerberg-testimony-live-congress/) on Tuesday, those watching the proceedings flocked to social media to crack jokes about the [Facebook CEO](http://time.com/5233296/mark-zuckerberg-congress-hearing-facebook-russia/). Zuckerberg is facing a two-day congressional inquisition following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm affiliated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, gathered personal information from 87 million Facebook users to try to influence elections. This is the first time Zuck has appeared before Congress personally — having previously sent deputies to represent him on Capitol Hill — and the internet was clearly ready to take full advantage of the live public hearing. After senators began questioning Zuckerberg, some Twitter users were quick to poke fun at the stereotype that older people don’t completely understand his social network. “Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine I recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line,” journalist Dave Itzkoff captioned a photoset of Sen. Chuck Grassley interrogating Zuck. “Is that the same as Facebook?” > [](https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/983789531257294848) Others took jabs at the CEO himself. > [](https://twitter.com/amberdiscko/status/983781083086049285) > [](https://twitter.com/MatthewTeague/status/983788401190211584) > [](https://twitter.com/GettyImagesNews/status/983784746273726467) > [](https://twitter.com/theMemesBot/status/983897817247879168) See some more reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/983801662916608006) > [](https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/983776639778779136) > [](https://twitter.com/ira/status/983787839883132933) > [](https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/983784143036305409) > [](https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/983788476872216578) > [](https://twitter.com/RemCrowder/status/983788797702868992) > [](https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/983798847527768064) > [](https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/983798058658836480) > [](https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB/status/983801811596468226) > [](https://twitter.com/Phil%5FLewis%5F/status/983795652802080768) > [](https://twitter.com/KofieYeboah/status/983799587801575425) > [](https://twitter.com/bobvulfov/status/983786303388028929) > [](https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/983778993928396800) > [](https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/983787717153710080) ## Transcript [00:00] Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. For [00:04] most of our existence we focused on all the good that [00:07] connecting people can do. And as Facebook has [00:09] grown, people everywhere have gotten a powerful new [00:12] tool for staying connected to people they love. For [00:17] making their voices heard and for building [00:19] communities and businesses. But it's clear now that we [00:22] didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being [00:24] used for harm as well. And that goes for fake news, [00:28] foreign interference and elections, and hate speech, as [00:31] well as developers and data privacy. We didn't take a [00:35] broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a [00:38] big mistake. And it was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I [00:43] started Facebook. 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