Mediaite

Sen. Blumenthal Reflects on ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Whistleblower Testimony: ‘Facebook’s Greed is Driving These Teens Into the Darkest of Places’

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) reflected on Tuesday’s Facebook whistleblower testimony by Frances Haugen on The Situation Room with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Blumenthal chairs the Senate Commerce ...
Hartford Courant

Sen. Richard Blumenthal wants to do to Facebook what he did to Big Tobacco. With new whistleblower revelations, here are 5 things that can be done.

When Sen. Richard Blumenthal first learned about internal Facebook research documenting the company’s knowledge of the harm created by its platforms, he immediately flashed back to his fight against ...
Mediaite

Sen. Blumenthal Demands Facebook Ban Steve Bannon, Zuckerberg Declines: ‘How Many Times’ is He Allowed to Call for Murder?

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) pressed Mark Zuckerberg on why Steve Bannon hasn’t been kicked off of Facebook for his threatening rhetoric against Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Chris Wray. As ...
New York Post

Sen. Richard Blumenthal asks Facebook exec to ‘end finsta’ at hearing

Sen. Richard Blumental asked a top Facebook executive on Thursday if the company would “commit to ending ‘finsta'” – apparently unaware of the term’s true meaning. Blumenthal (D-Conn.) questioned ...
Slate

Richard Blumenthal Was Right to Ask Facebook About “Ending Finsta”

Finsta means different things to different generations of Instagram users. Generally speaking, the term—understood by the millennials and zoomers I know to mean “fake insta” or “friend insta”—is slang ...
Reason

Richard Blumenthal Pressures Facebook To End Finsta, Has No Idea What That Is

Proving once again that the U.S. federal government's gerontocracy is totally unqualified to adjudicate tech issues—let alone regulate or break up large social media companies—Sen. Richard Blumenthal ...
Hartford Courant

After Facebook hearing, Blumenthal goes after Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter: ‘Zuckerberg should look at himself in the mirror’

Taking advantage of what he calls “a Big Tobacco moment,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal is going after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in his social media backyard. After declaring that it was a ...
The Washington Post

Congress is not as clueless about Facebook as it seems

Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Sept 29. He was mocked online for seemingly misunderstanding the Instagram slang term “finsta” in a hearing ...