ON HIS HIGH HORSE
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat on huge booster seat during Congress probe
FACEBOOK boss Mark Zuckerberg was mocked online for perching on a huge booster seat during his Congress probe.
The 5ft 7 inch tech whizz, 33, was spotted balancing on a giant cushion as he sat before a committee to face a grilling over privacy, Russian hackers and data leaks.
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Snaps of his bizarre four-inch high seating arrangement was spotted by eagle-eyed viewers and shared on Twitter.
One user wrote: "Is that a billionaire's version of a booster seat?"
Another said: "Mark Zuckerberg’s chair on Capitol Hill has a booster seat.
"Pretty sure he's borrowing his dad's suit too by the way it fits."
A Twitter user posted: "Wonder if they gave him crayons and a coloring book also."
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Zuckerberg ditched his usual jeans a t-shirt to wear a blue suit for the mammoth hearing.
He kicked off by apologising for data breaches saying: "It was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here."
But the serious hearing was undermined, not only by his booster cushion, but by a number of wacky protests.
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Zuckerberg was met by a woman dressed like a Russian troll as he entered the Capitol Hill building.
Consumer activist Amanda Werner dressed in a foot high blue troll wig and Russia flag scarf, in a bid to highlight Facebook's vulnerability
Outside, campaign group Avaaz put 100 Zuckerberg cardboard-cutouts on the lawn to protest against fake accounts spreading false information which may have affected elections.
The Zuckerberg army wore t-shirts with the slogan "fix Facebook" across the front.
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Other protesters wore t-shirts urging people to delete Facebook and waved placards reading "Protect Our Privacy" and "Stop Corporate Spying".
A man inside the auditorium was snapped wearing giant pink sunglasses with 'stop spying' written across the lenses.
The hearing was sparked by the Cambridge Analytica scandal - which saw a third party app harvest user data of 87 millions users, which it them passed on during the 2016 US election.
Critics of Facebook demonstrate at Capitol Hill in Washington DC with Mark Zuckerberg cardboard cutouts
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