Facebook would face off with Elizabeth Warren over big tech break-up
Audio from meetings have Mark Zuckerberg saying it would win any legal battle if Warren, if made president, tries to break up big tech firms
Washington/Bengaluru — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in July he expected that the company would face an effort to break up the world’s largest social media company if Democrat Elizabeth Warren were elected US president, according to audio of two internal company meetings from July published by The Verge.
“If she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government,” he said, according to audio posted by the Verge...
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