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Twitter\’s Dorsey Sparks Controversy by Trolling Congress During Hearing

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Twitter\’s Dorsey Sparks Controversy by Trolling Congress During Hearing

When Twitter’s CEO Got a “Yes? No?” on a Congressional Stage

The showdown

  • Date & drama: March 25th – a three‑hour almost all‑day marathon where lawmakers pressed the heads of Twitter, Facebook, and Google to answer a string of “yes or no” questions.
  • The stakes: From whether tech giants can be blamed for the Jan. 6 riot to how they’d differentiate between why (why) and why (w‑hy).
  • Rising tension: The crowd wanted tight, checkbox‑style answers. Anything else—longer blurbs and digressions—met a polite interrupt.

    • The “Tweet‑Triage”

    Who What they did The punchline
    Jack Dorsey (Twitter) Posted a simple “?” tweet with an attached poll asking Twitter users to pick yes or no. Rep. Kathleen Rice asked, “Mr. Dorsey, what’s winning on your poll?” Dorsey replied that yes was ahead. Rice responded with, “Your multitasking skills are quite impressive.”
    Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) Fired back with his usual calm‑and‑collected testimony—no polling needed. He stayed quiet while the panel tried to squeeze more answers.
    Sundar Pichai (Alphabet) Humourously reviewed the pronunciation errors from Congress. Dorsey liked a tweet that highlighted those mistakes and, to silence his critics, he confirmed he was barefoot during the interview.
  • Fun fact – Dorsey’s Twitter poll snagged over 71,000* votes. Talk about a tiny office crowd getting a riot of opinions!

    • Topics that kept the lawmakers staring

  • COVID‑19 misinformation: “Did you put the virus out in ‘no’ or not?”—the answer had to be yes.
  • Harassment & hate speech: “Are we zero‑tolerance?” – they were stuck with yes/ no.
  • Extremism & political bias: “Is that fine?”—in a world where the absurdity of yes vs. no is often a clear reflection of reality.

    • Takeaway

    No one cracked the “true or false” format of the question, sparking an unplanned Twitter thread, a debate, and a dash of humor from a tech CEO singing “barefoot” on a Congressional floor. The drama perhaps proved that even in the great halls of Washington, people still love a good Twitter poll.

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