Zuckerberg Faces Shareholders at Contentious Facebook Meeting

May 31, 2018, 9:00 PM UTC

It was not a normal Facebook Inc. shareholder meeting.

On Thursday in Menlo Park, California, one investor compared the social network’s poor stewardship of user data to a human rights violation. Another warned that scandal is not good for Facebook’s bottom line. And one advised Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to emulate George Washington, not Vladimir Putin, and avoid turning Facebook into a “corporate dictatorship.”

Facebook struggled to keep order, kicking one woman out of the meeting within the first few minutes for repeated interruptions. A plane zipped overhead pulling a banner that read “YOU BROKE DEMOCRACY” and advertising Freedom ...

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