At a congressional hearing on Twitter’s transparency and accountability on Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that the platform’s algorithm has been “unfair.”

In reference to the so-called “shadow-banning” of some 600,000 accounts, which included some members of Congress, Dorsey acknowledged that the platform’s “quality filter” had suppressed the visibility of accounts using parameters that unfairly impacted some users.

Though he was “unable to immediately say whether a majority of them were Republican, Democratic or otherwise,” BBC notes, Dorsey acknowledged in the hearing that the platform had reduced the visibility of hundreds of thousands accounts using an algorithm that was “unfair” but, he stressed, has since been “corrected.”

Dorsey has come under increased pressure from conservatives, Republicans, and now the Department of Justice, who point to an apparent pattern of politically biased handling of users by the platform that has punished those on the right. – READ MORE

It was a day that will go down in tech history books, as much for its potential significance as for its utter bizarreness.

For a brief moment on Wednesday, the worlds of Silicon Valley business, partisan politics, conspiracy theorists and the theater of the absurd all collided into one magnificent spectacle, as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey visited Washington DC for back-to-back Congressional hearings.

Amazingly, a photographer was able to get a picture that captures all this, and more.

Dorsey and his weird beard-shirt combo, Alex Jones, a congressional staffer wearing Google Glass, and a journalist wearing an 1980s Casio watch. This has to be the most hilariously dystopian picture of the year. pic.twitter.com/d9DPnExbLX — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (@lorenzofb) September 5, 2018

This photo was taken by Politico’s M. Scott Mahaskey during a break in the hearings and posted to Twitter. – READ MORE