An army of Mark Zuckerberg cutouts has invaded Capitol Hill, and it's terrifying

All your Zuck are belong to us
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Marcus Gilmer
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An army of Mark Zuckerberg cutouts has invaded Capitol Hill, and it's terrifying
"Stop us if you've heard this one but we're tweaking the news feed again..." Credit: Getty Images

I, for one, welcome our new Zuckerberg overlord.

The terrifying sights you see above and below are enough to chill you to your core even before you log on to Facebook to see if any of your stupid friends from high school used the "This Is Your Digital Life" app and handed over all your data to Cambridge Analytica.

Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to finally testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in a highly-anticipated joint hearing about, well, all of the tire fires the social media platform has managed to set over the past few years.

For the record, these are, as far as I know, not real Zuckerberg clones but, rather, cardboard cutouts posted all around the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. by international advocacy group Avaaz to protest the proliferation of fake news and fake profiles across Facebook.

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Invasion of the hoodie people Credit: Getty Images

In a press release, Avaaz said, "The group is calling on the CEO to ban all bots, alert the public any and every time users see fake or disinformation, fund fact checkers around the world, and submit to an independent audit to review the scale and scope of fake news."

Mashable has reached out to Avaaz for additional comments.

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Do not worry, we are here to build a community. That is all. We are transparent. Can you not see that? Credit: Getty Images

Whether Zuckerberg saw all of his cardboard clones is unknown, as is whether or not he was as unnerved by the sight as the rest of us.

The Zuck sits down to face the music sometime after 2:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday; here's how to watch and be sure to stay tuned to Mashable for more updates as events warrant and the cutouts make their move.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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