Before Showdown With Congress, Mark Zuckerberg Frames the Conversations He’d Rather Have
In a surprisingly brisk 35 minutes, Facebook's founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out a case for why everyone needs to root for Facebook.
He’s likely to recycle some of the talking points next week, when he appears before Congress to defend his company's plans for its own form of digital currency, called Libra.
For now, he didn’t get into that. In typical Zuckerberg style, he opined about how his platform brings people together—a morally ambiguous mission that Facebook has always coded as a de facto social good. He declared social media the "fifth estate," a social force "alongside the other power structures in our society.”