Daily Caller: Facebook has spent millions of dollars lobbying the U.S. government since its official inception in 2009. As the company has grown in affluence and influence, so too has the public’s distrust, despite persuasive funding.
People and lawmakers from all ends of the political spectrum in recent months have been sternly chastising the tech giant for various grievances. From a partnership with a Trump campaign-employed data analytics firm that violated a data usage agreement, the purported revelation Facebook compiles certain app users’ call and text logs, to the allegations it helped Russian operatives sow seeds of discord among the American electorate and even influence the 2016 election, Facebook has been hit with several charges of impropriety.
That frustration, even hatred, has led Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to seemingly go from the beloved, fresh-faced entrepreneurial wunderkind to a cunning tech tycoon almost equally controversial to “robber barons” from the late 19th century. The company’s leader is set to testify before Congress Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting the question: has Facebook’s deep-pocketed lobbying efforts been a waste?
“Facebook has a long history of offending conservatives, by crushing conservative opinion and voice on its platform. So, there is little reason to think conservatives will be kind to him,” National Center for Public Policy Research general counsel and Free Enterprise Project Director Justin Danhof told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “And now, liberals are furious with Facebook as well. Still unable to reconcile Clinton’s crushing defeat, Facebook has become the latest ‘reason’ that she lost to Trump.”
Danhof, whose unique job is to attend big companies’ shareholder meetings to foster executive accountability, said “Facebook holds conservatives in great disdain.”
“The board is filled with quintessential coastal liberal elites,” Danhof continued. “The politics of the company are so far to the left that the ONE conservative/libertarian board member Peter Thiel has considered resigning.” more here
He’s going to keep on doing what he’s been doing. His “testifying” in DC is not being done under oath, and so far, everything coming out of his mouth is a lie. He thinks if he looks innocent and says he takes full responsibility, everyone is going to say – that’s okay, at least he’s taking responsibility. BS – this guy is evil and will keep on doing what he’s doing for the global cabal and the detriment of the US.
If you want to continue to support this evil liar, then by all means stay on farcebook.
I’m an admin for our facebook page so I have the obligation to stay for now. But that’s at facebook’s whim.
When the page goes down, I’ll close my accounts there, after I burn some bridges. Heh.
Never got on – never going to, but I do understand the attraction for most of the people. That ability to keep in touch with friends and relatives is a great idea. Too bad they weren’t really aware of what the cost of this “free” service might be.
Free is never really free – a lesson we should all learn if we haven’t already.
It’s telling that the current FB mess is being heralded as “The Cambridge Analytica Scandal” and not “The Facebook Fuckup.”
He’s already bought and paid for congress, the senate and a past president. And really; “Zuckerberg to seemingly go from the beloved, fresh-faced entrepreneurial wunderkind…” PUKE! Gladys is right nothing will change, it’ll just be done with more secrecy.
‘As the company has grown in affluence and influence, so too has the public’s distrust, despite persuasive funding.’
People perceived that the ‘social platform’ was a front on a privacy-mining-for-profit syndicate that was both ‘too big to fail’™ and too big to be law-abiding (many characterized it as the ‘CIA’-and perhaps it is).
And their fears are being validated.
Laws for taxpayers, none for oligarchs.
He is good friend with the ex mother fuc Muslim.