[taxyz]

Not saying it’s the case here but a lot of times congress asks these questions as leading questions or to give viewers the full context of follow up questions (or more likely for easy clips).

A hypothetical back and forward might be something like:

“How does Facebook make money?”

“By selling ads.”

“Does Facebook ever target those ads to kids?”

“Yes”

“So is it in facebook’s financial interest for kids to spend as much time as possible on the platform?”

[rrrrrrrrrrrryan]

Eh the question posed by the senator was just clumsy: it was something like, "If your users don't pay you, how do actually you make money?"

Clearly the senator was trying to highlight the fact that Facebook can't have its users' best interests at heart, because its very existence depends on pillaging their data and whoring out their eyeballs to the highest bidder. But by playing the fool he made himself actually look like a fool, because he left himself wide open to Zuck's "Senator... we run ads" zinger.