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[BROKEN PROMISES] LEDGER
// Promise vs Reality

Documented Lies

Public commitments that were later broken, quietly abandoned, or contradicted on the record. Each entry pairs the promise — with its primary source — against the documented violations that followed.

// Aggregate public harm across 2 assessed promises
$5 billionestimated public cost
87M peopleaffected
1 documented promise
Mark Zuckerberg Violated Major Primary evidence Privacy
Zuckerberg to Congress: 'You should have complete control over your data'
Said “Across the board, we have a responsibility to not just build tools, but to make sure those tools are used for good. … You should have complete control over your data.”
Promised 2018-04-10 00:00:00+00 Audience · Congress 2 sourced violations Latest breach 2023-05-22 00:00:00+00
Source Senate testimony transcript, 10 April 2018 ↗