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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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.
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.
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!
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.
“Ladies and gentlemen: I’d like to use this wonderful moment of cameraderie among us to propose a toast to...ME!”
I’m on it too. It’s a tool as any other - if used with some caution, I suppose.
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.
“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.
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.
I meant FaceBook not Free Republic
I first saw the article here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8.5m? Why that's about a 0.00007% share of the company. Yep, that'll send the Zuck hopping...
Correction: 0.00007 absolute, 0.007 in percent.
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.
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