Man in charge of half the internet, who can never be fired from his job, says he is learning from his mistakes

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• Mark Zuckerberg has taken responsibility for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
• Zuckerberg makes mistakes, like everyone else. But a mistake on Facebook has global consequences. 
• He can never be fired from Facebook due to the way his stock holdings control the company.
• Zuckerberg thus has a massive amount of power (he even has a direct line to President Trump via board member Peter Thiel) but there is no way to hold him accountable if he makes a mistake.

My colleague Steve Kovach asked Mark Zuckerberg a really interesting question last week. “Has anyone been fired related to the Cambridge Analytica issue or any other data privacy issue?“

Zuckerberg told him, “I have not [fired anyone] due to the Cambridge Analytica situation. We are still working through this. At the end of the day, this is my responsibility. So there have been a bunch of questions about that.”

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