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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

I wish they had been interested 5 years ago, or 10 years ago, when it might have made a real difference

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

the military designed the withdrawal, and executed the withdrawal, they were given every resource and every bit of support that they asked for

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

You are a 21st Century American hero warning our country of the danger for young people, for our democracy, and our Nation owes you just a huge debt of gratitude for the courage you're showing here today.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

Facebook appears to have misled the public and investors and if that's correct, it ought to face real penalties.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

Yesterday Facebook had a platform outage but for years it has had a principles outage. Its only real principle is profit.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

It has been well-documented how private equity firms were protected from the 2008 economic crisis.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

What does that do? Well, it says to all the television networks in America stop preying upon children, stop using all of your power in order to try to get young children in our country hooked on the products that are going to be sold.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

Ultimately children are not commodities.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

Meanwhile, private equity CEOs are living lavishly, and pocketing billions of dollars in profit off of the backs of these hard-working families struggling to keep a roof over their heads.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

I feel pretty confident that it's Facebook who has done the misrepresenting to this committee.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

They've always been given historically special protections.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

Certainly, natural disasters are disruptive and traumatic life events.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

The affordable housing and eviction crises are racial and economic justice crises, and stable housing has been a matter of life or death for millions of people vulnerable to eviction during this pandemic.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

I simply reject these often unjust binary false choices that are foisted upon us.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

Housing is a human right. I know our chairwoman agrees. I implore you to take action to help address these egregious behaviors.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

An internal Facebook document from 2020 that you revealed reads, 'Why do we care about tweens? They are a valuable but untapped audience.'

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 4, 2021

You have asked us to act as a committee and Facebook has scores of lobbyists in this city right now coming in right after this hearing to tell us we can't act and they have been successful for a decade in blocking this committee from…

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