He’ll soon find out what the other left wing media knows, they don’t sell. He wants to censor his site, fine. Let him see what happens when people just leave his site. It’s stupid now anyway.
An impossibility for me ;-)
I’ll predict that by July 2017...Facebook notes in some public statement that viewers (clicks) are down a minimum of 10-percent. Advertising profits are affected. By the end of 2017...viewers will be noted by 25-percent down from the norm....with a high number who simply quit Facebook.
Gab? It will become the new platform and receive all of the frustrated Facebook users.
By the end of 2018....I think the Z-man of Facebook will put the business up for sale and walk away....taking the profits while it still has some value.
This is the year Facebook jumps the shark and he knows it. He’s dumping tens of billions of dollars of his own stock.
A Potential Hitch in Zuckerberg’s Stock Plan for Facebook
Deal Professor
By STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON DEC. 13, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg wants to give away nearly all his stake in Facebook, and yet still keep control of the company he helped found. What’s a tech billionaire to do?
The neat solution to this problem — creating a new class of shares — is par for the course for Silicon Valley, but often gives other shareholders short shrift.
With the birth of his daughter last year, Mr. Zuckerberg wanted to transfer 99 percent of his wealth to a company he controls with his wife, which would later donate that money to charity. In giving away his shares, however, he would have to confront the issue of giving up his voting control over Facebook.
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Mr. Zuckerberg currently owns about 15 percent of Facebook, but because most of his stock is Class B shares with 10 votes apiece, he has voting control of the company with 53.8 percent of the votes, a number brought up to about 60 percent of the votes since he also has the ability to vote the shares held by Dustin Moskovitz.
If Mr. Zuckerberg fulfilled even part of his giving pledge, which included the donation of $1 billion a year over the next three years, it would mean coming close to losing his control of the company he founded.
So he turned to a tried and true strategy: Follow Google...
Do you ever wonder where all your “friends” went? People are already dropping Facebook like mad. The real live humans just are not there to the extent they used to be. Which is why there are so many ads, recipes, and political opinion pieces off sites you’ve never heard of.