Adbusters: Farewell and Good Luck, Zuck! Will his latest moves mark the beginning of the end of Facebook?
Zuckerberg, who turns 29 today [5/14], is using his Facebook fortune to create and promote advertisements for fracking companies, the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline, and for oil companies that want to drill in such delicate places as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! And of course, his success as an entrepreneur has always been contentious, since we know that he’s stepped over a lot of people, including his friends, stealing ideas and playing hardball, to get where he is today – one of the world’s youngest billionaires .. Zuckerberg is moving boldly into the political arena. The new lobbying group that he co-founded with other technology executives in the Silicon Valley is called FWD.US. “Their first moves,” writes Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet, mark a resurrection of “old-school libertarian values: [] trashing health care reform and backing the Keystone XL pipeline.”
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