San Francisco (AFP)
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's boss, aired live and public Q & A on Thursday for employees of the Internet giant, in response to a media leak from a previous meeting of the Internet. type.
For over an hour, the young boss interacted with employees who asked him about the success of their new products or news events, which did not necessarily concern Facebook.
"Nobody deserves to have so much money," he said, for example, to a question about a statement by Bernie Sanders, presidential candidate in 2020, who tweeted that billionaires "should not to exist".
"If you do something good, you're rewarded, but I think it can be unreasonable," said Mark Zuckerberg, one of the youngest billionaires in the world.
His reaction was especially expected on the repeated attacks of Senator Elizabeth Warren, the rising star of the Democratic primary for the presidential election.
During the July meeting that had leaked on the Verge site, he said: "Someone like Elizabeth Warren thinks the solution is to dismantle companies ... If she is elected president, I bet we will have a legal fight, and I bet we will win. "
The subject was put on the carpet this Thursday in front of dozens of employees at the company's headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley.
"Let's try not to annoy her more," said Mark Zuckerberg, laughing.
The co-founder of the world's most powerful social network reiterated her intention to prevent her from achieving her ends if she were elected, while insisting on the values that he wanted above all to defend, in terms of freedom of expression.
"I prefer that someone be elected, even if I do not agree with that person - which is not the case here - that to prevent him from expressing himself," he said. assured, as a guarantee of impartiality.
Facebook and other major platforms are regularly in the viewfinder of politicians, accused by Republicans of being biased and by Democrats to have accumulated too much power, to the detriment of the possibilities of choosing different services for users.
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