Private information security

People are calling for Zuckerberg’s resignation. Here are just five of the reasons why.

A petition has been launched with one simple objective: to force Mark Zuckerberg to resign as CEO of Facebook.

The campaign group behind it, Fight for the Future, says that although there’s no “silver bullet” to “fix” Facebook, the company cannot address its underlying problems while Zuckerberg remains in charge.

The petition is highly unlikely to succeed, of course. It’s hard to imagine Zuckerberg stepping down voluntarily. And there’s not much Facebook’s board can do either, even if they wanted to. Zuckerberg controls about 60% of all voting shares in Facebook. He’s pretty much untouchable, both as CEO and as board chairman. Despite near-weekly scandals, the company is still growing, and it’s one of the most profitable business ventures in human history.

(Another potential solution, as described in a piece in the New York Times written by one of Facebook’s cofounders, is to break the company up and implement new data privacy regulations in the US.)