Senate vents at but may not curb Facebook
The senators groused and grimaced and expressed general disapproval with all that has gone wrong at Facebook, but they stopped short of giving its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, reason for panic on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg's five-hour grilling by 44 lawmakers confirmed Facebook is in for a prolonged period of government scrutiny, but also highlighted how unprepared Congress is to impose game-changing rules on the world's biggest social network.
Once lawmakers finally got Zuckerberg where they wanted him - under oath and forced to answer all their questions about Facebook's role in the 2016 election and its lax privacy protections - they struggled to articulate how exactly they want his company to change.
The proceedings brought into stark relief how San Francisco Bay Area innovation can be more nimble than Washington bureaucracy. Zuckerberg had to spend a good deal of time
