Facebook and Twitter need more Peter Thiel and less Jack Dorsey

Published June 3, 2020 12:55am ET



There has been a lot of change at Facebook lately. Since 2019, five members of its nine-member board have left, with departures including Jeffrey Zients (former Obama administration adviser); Kenneth Chenault (former American Express CEO); Erskine Bowles (former Clinton White House chief of staff), Susan Desmond-Hellmann (former CEO of the Bill Gates Foundation, Democrat), and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings (a prominent Democratic Party supporter).

The four remaining are venture capitalist Peter Thiel (conservative/libertarian), Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (Democrat), venture capitalist Marc Andreessen (moderate), and Mark Zuckerberg (Democrat). Out of nine members, that’s seven Democrats, one moderate, and one libertarian conservative. Diversity!

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