Facebook, not presidential ambition, is why Zuckerberg’s on tour

There’s been a lot of speculation around whether Mark Zuckerberg is or is not planning to run for office. From his nationwide tour to his rejection of atheism, there have been quite a few moments that could be interpreted as a lead-up to a presidential bid, but I don’t think that’s what is happening with […]

An existential threat looms behind Mark Zuckerberg’s quest to kill the smartphone (FB)

Getty To understand why Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with killing the smartphone, you have to go back to a rare public testimony he gave in a Dallas courtroom earlier this year. Zuckerberg was there to testify in a lawsuit between game maker ZeniMax and Oculus, the virtual reality startup Facebook purchased for $ 2 billion […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s defense of Peter Thiel reveals a flawed understanding of diversity

Mariana Bazo/Reuters Zero people of color hold a management position or a seat on the board at Facebook. These powerful roles are held predominantly by white men. Facebook as a whole is 90% white and Asian. And as CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his humanitarian tour of the country to give “everyone a voice,” his repeated defense of his company’s abysmal […]

Op-ed: Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto is a political trainwreck

Enlarge / Can Facebook’s AIs travel back in time to help with this boiler explosion? Probably. Eventually. (credit: Courtesy of De Forest Douglas Diver Railroad Photographs, ca. 1870-1948/Cornell University Library) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has just published a 5,700 word “letter” on his profile, where he asserts that Facebook represents one of history’s “great leaps.” […]

Zuckerberg’s vague new mission for Facebook

Facebook had already run into rocky territory over the past year, stumbling over censoring historically-significant content and wrestling with its own role in the election, before Trump came to office. Amid an ‘America First’ administration raising uncertainty about how the US fits in with the rest of the world, the social network’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]

Protestors still plan to march along Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaiian wall

Getty / Drew Angerer Hundreds of Hawaiians still plan to march in protest on Saturday along the six-foot-high wall that Mark Zuckerberg built in Kauai, despite the Facebook CEO’s decision to drop lawsuits that would compel some of them to give up ownership of their land. The protest’s organizer, a local hibiscus farmer named Joe Hart, […]