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Facebook investors call on Mark Zuckerberg to resign as chairman following damaging report
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 11/16/2018 | James Cook

Posted on 11/17/2018 6:31:09 PM PST by bitt

Facebook investors have called on the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman, following reports that the company hired a public relations firm to smear its critics by drawing links to George Soros.

The attack on Mr Zuckerberg is set to complicate the daunting challenge facing Sir Nick Clegg, Facebook's new global head of policy and communications, who joined last month and has been asked to conduct a review of Facebook's use of lobbying firms.

Jonas Kron, a senior vice president at Trillium Asset Management, a US investor which owns an £8.5m stake in Facebook, last night called on Mr Zuckerberg to step down as board chairman in the wake of the report.

“Facebook is behaving like it's a special snowflake,” he said. “It's not. It is a company and companies need to have a separation of chair and CEO.”

Both Mr Zuckerberg and Sir Nick have been under pressure following reports Facebook hired Definers, a Republican public relations firm, to help repair its battered reputation following intense criticism of the social media platform's handling of a scandal over Russian interference in the 2016 US elections and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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To: bitt
Mark Zuckerberg to resign


21 posted on 11/17/2018 8:33:09 PM PST by conservative98
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To: bitt

First of all, they are trying to make George Schwartz look like a victim. Nothing is further from the truth. If there is any skullduggery going on, Schwartz/Soros is the instigator.

Secondly, I am shocked, shocked, I tell you to find so many foreigners in our “All American Silicon Valley Companies.”

I don’t wish them any harm, I only want them to pay for their Anti American culture. And pay dearly.


22 posted on 11/17/2018 8:36:15 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: bitt

23 posted on 11/17/2018 9:03:10 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Bommer

I love the smell but f liberals eating their own!


The only reason Zuck is “being eaten” is that he hired Republicans. I don’t find joy in that. Sorry.


24 posted on 11/17/2018 9:18:29 PM PST by lodi90
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To: bitt

Hey Zuck,you leftist putz. How does if feel to be on the end of a hot economic anal probe by your own people? Hope it hurts like hell

Hope it happens to the other Zuker too.

I love the smell of burning butts in the morning, afternoon and evening!


25 posted on 11/17/2018 9:45:56 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bullish

I’m confused by this. So, FB hires a pr firm who attacks its critics by linking them to Soros. Fb’s critics have been the right because FB removes or hides conservative news. So, how can they link the right to Soros. This is weird.


26 posted on 11/17/2018 9:55:25 PM PST by HollyB
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To: TADSLOS

“Ladies and gentlemen: I’d like to use this wonderful moment of cameraderie among us to propose a toast to...ME!”


27 posted on 11/17/2018 9:56:13 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: The Mayor

I’m on it too. It’s a tool as any other - if used with some caution, I suppose.


28 posted on 11/17/2018 9:58:28 PM PST by HollyB
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To: The Mayor

I posted a link to an article about a Democrat congressman calling for FB to be regulated and they removed it.

I think at this point I may be shadow banned because when I post a link it now takes it 10 or so minutes to appear. Someone is looking at what I post before it appears.


29 posted on 11/17/2018 10:50:07 PM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: Bullish

“I don’t know what all this means really, but facebook sucks.”

In a word, truly so. Other than being some whiz-bang party line that people use to willingly put their business on the street with...there’s no there there.
Zuck be advised; before a fresh breeze blows away the smoke & mirrors of your scam, cash out your mucho-many chips and go find a life.


30 posted on 11/18/2018 1:24:32 AM PST by Huaynero
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To: Fai Mao

I doubt you are shadow banned. The management here has no problem banning or suspending anyone in full sunshine. Veer to far to the left..... or the right, and you’ll see.


31 posted on 11/18/2018 1:30:36 AM PST by Godebert
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To: Jim Robinson

https://definersdc.com/


32 posted on 11/18/2018 2:15:18 AM PST by Chickensoup (Never count on anyone, ever.)
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To: Godebert

I meant FaceBook not Free Republic

I first saw the article here.


33 posted on 11/18/2018 3:49:13 AM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: bitt
Jonas Kron, a senior vice president at Trillium Asset Management, a US investor which owns an £8.5m stake in Facebook, last night called on Mr Zuckerberg to step down as board chairman in the wake of the report.

I despise Zuckerberg, but the article says this came from investors? Think how small £8.5m is in the scheme of the value of company. I doubt Zuckerber will lose control of his company over this.

34 posted on 11/18/2018 5:29:31 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: TADSLOS

That is why I avoid big tech when I can. No Twitter, no Facebook, certainly no Netflix (which paid the obama’s tens of millions).

Am not going to knowingly enrich my enemy.


35 posted on 11/18/2018 5:34:46 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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To: HollyB

I was on Twitter for a stretch.

I got banned for calling Palestinians terrorists, yet Farrakhan can call Jews termites and Twitter doesn’t bat an eye.

Screw it. I am doesn’t with these people.


36 posted on 11/18/2018 5:36:51 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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To: The Mayor; All

They need to pass a law which will regulate social media the same way as utilities are regulated.

Imagine the electric company shutting off power to an old lady because they didn’t agree with her beliefs. They could never do that.

Apply these same rules to the social media companies.

Long. Past. Time.


37 posted on 11/18/2018 5:39:25 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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To: bitt
a US investor which owns an £8.5m stake in Facebook

8.5m? Why that's about a 0.00007% share of the company. Yep, that'll send the Zuck hopping...

38 posted on 11/18/2018 5:46:25 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: bitt

Correction: 0.00007 absolute, 0.007 in percent.


39 posted on 11/18/2018 5:49:53 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: The Mayor

https://mewe.com & https://mewepro.com/

MeWe works very much like fb and they’ve vowed to not be like fb. It’s a different business model. You pay for premium goodies rather than them selling YOU.


40 posted on 11/18/2018 5:59:54 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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