Zuckerberg won’t step down as Facebook chairman

as informed in Instead it's sending a veteran EMEA policy guy, Richard Allan, now its London-based VP of policy solutions, to face a roomful of irate MPs. A spokeswoman for the DCMS committee confirmed Facebook declined its last request for Zuckerberg to give evidence, telling TechCrunch: "The Committee offered the opportunity for him to give evidence over video link, which was also refused. Facebook has offered Richard Allan, vice president of policy solutions, which the Committee has accepted. "The Committee still believes that Mark Zuckerberg is the appropriate person to answer important questions about data privacy, safety, security and sharing," she added. Marshalling international action appears to be DCMS's alternative action plan.

Facebook investors sound off about Zuckerberg after stock plunges 40 percent in four months

"Their PR ploys so far have been empty and insufficient, and with growth already stalling they need to start changing sentiment now." One idea that's picked up steam is for Zuckerberg to relinquish his position as chairman of the board, thus separating the CEO and chair roles. That lists includes Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Salesforce's Marc Benioff and Netflix's Reed Hastings, who's also a Facebook director. But some investors say it's past time that Zuckerberg bring in a fresh voice. Jonas Kron, senior vice president of Trillium, which owns about 53,000 Facebook shares, told CNBC last week that recent activity "makes it abundantly clear that an independent board chair is necessary."

Zuckerberg won't step down as Facebook chairman

referring to In a short but amply hyped interview with CNN, Facebook's founder and chief executive again responded to criticism over the company's most recent crisis. "Sheryl is a really important part of this company… She's been an important partner with me for 10 years," Zuckerberg told CNN. The second big leadership issue: Will Zuckerberg retain all of the control he currently exercises as the chairman of Facebook's board? When asked again today if he plans to step down as chairman in the midst of his company's latest crisis, Zuckerberg answered firmly enough to put that question to rest for now. "That's not the plan… I'm not currently thinking that that makes sense," Zuckerberg told CNN.

Hospital urged to drop Zuckerberg name after Facebook controversies

A San Francisco politician is trying to get Mark Zuckerberg's name removed from a local hospital, citing Facebook's recent slew of scandals. In 2015, after Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $75 million, San Francisco General Hospital rebranded itself the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. But this week, San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin asked the city to "outline the procedure for the removal of the Zuckerberg name" from the facility, according to a report in Business Insider. Peskin cited March's Cambridge Analytica scandal — which saw Facebook leak the private information of nearly 90 million users — as well as this month's New York Times report that Facebook hired a controversial research firm that launched anti-Semitic attacks against Facebook critic George Soros. "It is not normal for Mark Zuckerberg and [Facebook COO] Sheryl Sandberg to refuse to accept responsibility and publicly distance themselves from acts that they have personally instigated," Peskin said, according to the report.

Mark Zuckerberg is essentially untouchable at Facebook

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