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> When asked by Senator Maria Cantwell whether Facebook employees helped with the Cambridge Analytica work: “Senator, I don’t know.”

If someone asks you "did any of your employees ever do XYZ?", and you've never heard of a case where they did, then sure in normal conversation you'd answer "no". But if you're under oath, you'd better damn well say "I don't know."

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He definitely was not under oath. If that was a requirement he would of never testified.

It doesn't matter if he was under oath — lying to Congress is a crime, oath or not.

Ha! Imagine how many people would be in jail right now if that were actually enforced.

He (or really his team) should have expected that question and found out before these hearings.

Imagine they interview everyone who conceivably could've talked to CA during those years. And everyone says, no, we never worked with them directly. So then Zuckerberg testifies that, no, no Facebook employees ever worked with CA. But then a few weeks from now, some old emails are discovered that prove otherwise, which one of those interviewees forgot about somehow. Now Zuckerberg is on the hook for having lied to Congress! And literally no one would be satisfied that he "thought his answer was true at the time."

Lawyers see this sort of thing happen all the time. Coaching Zuckerberg not to give answers like that, would be one of the first things they'd do to prepare.

I don't think he was even under oath.

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