While Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren watched her 2020 candidacy steadily rise over the summer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was telling employees he would fight a legal battle before he let the company succumb to Warren's ambitions to break up big tech, according to audio leaked Tuesday morning.
"Does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government ... We care about our country and want to work with our government and do good things," Zuckerberg told employees at a July Q&A session at company headquarters."But look, at the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.
A few hours later, she spoke out again -- though she didn't address Zuckerberg's threat of initiating a lawsuit or whether his doing so could neuter her plan. She also seemed to address Zuckerberg's criticism in the leaked audio that breaking companies up wouldn't"solve the issues" because"companies can't coordinate and work together" on issues of privacy, foreign interference or hate speech.
What would really “suck” is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy. https://t.co/rI0v55KKAi His response was to a question about how"personally worried" he was about"regulators coming in and breaking up Facebook" given Warren's rise in the 2020 presidential race, coupled with the $5 billion fine from the Federal Trade Commission the company recently paid over privacy issues.
I agree w/privacy issue...there should be laws in place that protect consumers information.STIFF penalties for companies that sell it. But calling fb and amazon “monopolies” b/c they are 1 in their biz is WRONG. Being successful isn’t a crime. Right to free speech IS American
This is ridiculous! Just because Facebook and amazon are successful,doesn’t mean they have a monopoly. You don’t HAVE to use Facebook ... I don’t. There’s other social media sites. Don’t HAVE to buy on Amazon, either. But I do. It’s a great shopping site.Privacy? Different issue.
Not so much fun being a liberal when your own kind turn on you. Zuckerberg, changer your party to republican, donate to reelect President Trump, and always vote republican if you wish to keep your company in one piece.
'leaked audio'? is this legal? how much of it comes in the way of industrial spiying? where the civil rigths get into this?
Trump’s not looking so bad after all now, is he?😬
Maybe Zuckerberg is part of the Deep State that Stephen Miller is looking for.
Lol. Leaked audio. Of course he's going to. I hope you didn't pay for that.
so even liberals hate the liar warren?
Oh my she’s a mess trying to chase all corps away like the news says oh my scary creepy
Better than an endorsement!!
Fox News is RNC! And political polarization in America must stop and all executives should stand trial for treason, bribes and corruption charges including about 95% of Congress & 75% of the Senate are guilty of this.
Well duh. He would be stupid not to.
As all the Crimes Committed by the Mass Media even Fox News took up political sides, all media outlets in America should be neutral and deliver the news! This has failed to happen as Facebook & CNN are nothing but puppets of the DNC!
Fake news spread by Facebook back to at least during the Obama admin is how so many vulnerable elderly and other weak minded people were radicalized to Fox News. Facebook bears great responsibility for the trouble we are in right now.
Let's face it Democrats are against success of any kind. They want us to go backwards and not to move forward. They have nothing to offer the American people, except to fire Trump. Clearly the Bidens and Clinton's are corrupt, Dems don't care.
Zuckerberg worried he may not keep his 100 billion dollars. Greed is ugly.
If I was President Zuckerberg you would be fighting High Treason Charges! I know how you influenced the 2016 elections, fomented violence against Trump Supporters! I remember your crimes well!
Makes you wonder what Republican has Mark in his pocket. I mean, why bring up a fight he will have with someone who isn’t even on the ballot yet. I was supporting Sen. Warren anyway but now I’m going to see how many more I can bring along with me.
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