Pete Buttigieg on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: ‘No One Should Have That Kind of Power’
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Pete Buttigieg said that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “has too much power. No one should have that kind of power.”
According to CNBC, “Buttigieg told the New York Times that just because he and Zuckerberg share friends and both went to Harvard University “doesn’t mean we agree on a lot of things.” Buttigieg advocated for “a standard that shifts the burden to large companies, especially when they’re making acquisitions, like the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook, that are likely anti-competitive.”
Buttigieg also criticized Facebook’s advertising policy that allows politicians to run false ads without fact-checks.
“There’s a problem of their refusal to accept their responsibility for speech that they make money from,” Buttigieg told the Times. “So, if a cable company, or a newspaper, if somebody can show that an ad that you all were going to run is false, you would pull it, and yet Facebook doesn’t want to hold themselves to that same standard.”
