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Consumer Confidential: Zuckerberg says internet regulation 'inevitable,' but he'll still put up a fight

After two days of testimony on Capitol Hill, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know: He's sorry - really, really sorry - about that Cambridge Analytica thing, and he's open to some degree of internet regulation.

Is he really sorry? If contrition is measured in a willingness to put on a suit and use a little hair product, then, yeah, he's sorry.

Is he truly open to lawmakers clamping down on his business?

What, are you kidding?

For all his well-coached humility, Zuckerberg committed to nothing when it came to regulation.

While acknowledging Wednesday before

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