Elizabeth Warren clapped back at Mark Zuckerberg after he vowed to "go to the mat" and "fight" if she won the presidency and tried to break up Facebook.
His comments came from leaked audio from a pair of meetings with employees that took place in July, obtained and transcribed by The Verge. While Zuckerberg addressed multiple topics in the meetings, from Libra to Facebook's internal TikTok competitor, by far, his most interesting comments are about Warren, who has repeatedly promised to break up Big Tech.
When asked about the threat of regulators breaking up Facebook, Zuckerberg said:
"I mean, if [Warren] gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government. I mean, that’s not the position that you want to be in when you’re, you know, I mean … it’s like, we care about our country and want to work with our government and do good things. But look, at the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight." Read more...
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