It’s time for Facebook’s board to step up

For more than a week, Facebooks critics have wondered if the company will face any consequences for the dirty tricks and deceptions detailed in a Nov.

But she does not think the board will take Galloways advice, and also contrasted Facebooks timid workers with their more vocal peers at Google.

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That he should give up one of his cards so that at least theres some level of accountability, even if its just a fig leaf of accountability.

You do find situations where basically theres a controlling shareholder and the board turns into not a board of directors, but an advisory board, as is the case at Facebook.

What has gotten Facebook here to this point isnt going to get them where they need to be and there has been such egregious errors.

There has been enough going on here, whether its fomenting lies, deflect, contamination of elections, people being pulled out of cars and hanged.

The board needs to act as fiduciaries for the country, they need to act as fiduciaries for teens, they need to act as fiduciaries for people who are being injured in other countries.

But it is time for her to go and it is time for him to relinquish the CEO role and it is time for the board of Facebook to do their damn jobs.

When he kept saying the wrong things and the fire, the raking, they just sat there and they took it for the betterment of the people there, to focus on the people of California who are suffering.

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Author: Eric Johnson

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