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    A Telling Exchange at the Zuckerberg Hearing

    How a question about vaccines made it into a hearing about cryptocurrency
    by Rachel Gutman Oct 23, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Susan Walsh / AP

    “Are you 100 percent confident that vaccines pose no injury to any person on this planet?”

    That was a real question asked today by Bill Posey, a congressman representing Florida’s Eighth District, to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook, for the record, is not a pharmaceutical company. Zuckerberg is not a medical professional. There are no indications that Libra, the proposed cryptocurrency that was supposedly the object of the House subcommittee hearing during

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