Zuckerberg deflects senators’ Facebook questions, and gets $3 billion for the effort

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Market Watch

Mark Zuckerberg has come far since the early days of Facebook Inc., and that growth that was extremely apparent in how deftly the chief executive dealt with several hours of inscrutable questioning by U.S. senators Tuesday over the social network’s role in presidential election-meddling and the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

Wearing a conservative suit and light blue tie, an outfit he would rarely wear in Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg sat ramrod straight in his witness chair for most of the many hours of questions. He responded to each questioner by first addressing them as senator or chair. He looked earnest and serious for almost every question, even during some of the laughable questions from some of the less tech-savvy members of the Senate, such as the one by Sen. Orrin Hatch, who asked how Facebook FB, +4.50%  makes money if it doesn’t charge users anything.

“Senator, we run ads,” Zuckerberg said with a smile.

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