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Former Facebook Executive Argues Zuckerberg Should Give Up CEO Role

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Zoë Bernard
· · Source: The Information

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has too much power and should give up his position to focus on product development, former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos said Tuesday. Mr. Stamos’s comments, delivered from a stage at the Collision tech conference in Toronto, make him the second former senior Facebook employee this month to argue that Mr. Zuckerberg has more power than any one corporate chief...

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