Stefan Mileschin

Too interested in imposing his vision to see what is going on

Mark Zuckerberg mentor (and early investor) Roger McNamee has warned his protégé has got out of control when it comes to “imposing his vision”.

McNamee said Zuckerberg does not acknowledge the website’s threat to national security, adding “It’s about power”.

He said he warned Mark Zuckerberg of the immense problems that Facebook’s business model could unleash, but the company essentially believes that it is sovereign, the equivalent of another nation.

“It has nearly twice as many monthly active users as there are people in China. And so Mark Zuckerberg very much has the view that no one can tell him what to do. Facebook’s research says that 64 percent of the time that a person joins an extremist network on Facebook; it is because Facebook has recommended that they do so.”

He said it was a mistake to think it was about money, although a nice bank balance is a factor.

“I think it’s about power. I think Mark Zuckerberg has a vision that connecting all the people in the world on one network — his network — is the best thing any human being can do. And in his notion it has to do with efficiency, it has to do with scale, it has to do with imposing his vision on it.”
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