“Saturday Night Live” in this weekend’s cold open found one thing that could unite both Democratic and Republican senators – they’re all too old to understand Facebook.
In the show’s opening sketch, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Mikey Day), chair of the subcommittee that heard testimony last week from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, thanked her for appearing before Congress.
“Thank you. It’s nice to be in an office with no skateboards,” Haugen (Heidi Gardner) answered.
She said that as a former Facebook engineer she believed the social media site could “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.”
“I appreciate all that,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. (Cecily Strong), answered. “My question is, I have 2,000 friends on Facebook. Is that good? … Like is that a lot? 2,000 sounds like a lot.”
She then asked how many Facebook friends rapper Drake has,…
