Lawmakers at a Senate hearing on Meta seemed to agree the company is a threat to democracy and its CEO is untrustworthy.

Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders refrained from making public statements while their companies collectively lost trillions. Their silence was both deafening and strategic.

It’s significant that this report was considered yesterday in committee, on the first of April. A farcical day for a farcical process leading to a farcical report. Yet it’s a report that sadly isn’t ...