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Quick, somebody friend Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He's having a tough day.
Amid the fallout from the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revelations in recent weeks, two US Senate committees questioned Zuckerberg on Tuesday. With 44 senators in attendance from both sides of the aisle, the questioning was understandably tense.
But as Twitter users watched live, it was easy to turn the grim images of Zuckerberg into comic relief.
"They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, 'Why, he wouldn't even harm a fly...'" pic.twitter.com/FtPt54N2gb
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 10, 2018
The senators, especially Iowa's Chuck Grassley, also came in for their share of jokes.
“Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine i recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line. Is that the same as Facebook?” pic.twitter.com/U7pqpUhEhQ
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 10, 2018
Grassley: Would it be possible to run your server farms on corn?
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 10, 2018
Chuck Grassley stop saying consarnit into the mic.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 10, 2018
Senator: and if I wanted to print out my Facebook, how would I do that?
Zuckerberg: well, I, um
Senator: could you slow down the funniest videos?
Zuckerberg: I don't really
Senator: and if I need to Like a post anonymously how do I do that?
Zuckerberg: that's not
— Chris Hardie (@ChrisHardie) April 10, 2018
If I were questioning Zuckerberg about Facebook I'd just ask him to explain different Minions memes. "Why is the Minion in the marines, and also in your opinion how does that relate to the broader observation about 'fake friends?'"
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 10, 2018
For a time on Tuesday, the Zuckerberg news didn't make it into Facebook's own trending news list. (By the time this post first published, it was there.)
The internet had some fun with the inches-tall seat cushion Zuckerberg spent so many hours on.
First published, April 10, 2:07 p.m. PT.
Update, April 10 4:48 p.m. PT: Adds more memes.