Mark Zuckerberg showed up on Capitol Hill on Monday to testify before various congressional committees about Facebook’s failures to protect millions of users against data-mining, fake news and Russian trolls. Over the past year, Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has wandered around America talking to people in small towns in order to “get out and talk to more people about how they’re living, working and thinking about the future.” But now, Zuckerberg is on the hot seat and so he ditched his normal jeans and gray T-shirt for a suit. But GQ writes the point of the suit wasn’t to look good, it was to look like “the responsible adult in the room.” Zuckerberg needs to prove to Capitol Hill that he is remorseful for Facebook’s oversights. He showed up wearing a black jacket, with a tie that’s a muted Facebook blue and a large shirt collar. GQ writes that the suit is almost like a sartorial dog collar — it is high up around his ears as a representation of his shame.
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