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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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