Here’s more of Bloomberg News’ report on Zuckerberg’s recommendations:Įarlier this year, Zuckerberg sent multiple emails to Mike Schmuhl, Buttigieg’s campaign manager, with names of individuals that he might consider hiring, campaign spokesman Chris Meagher confirmed. Warren was asked in gaggle about the news that Zuckerberg recommended hires to Buttigieg, and while she declined to criticize Buttigieg, she did say FB already has "way too much influence in Washington" /eO41EKL9EH- Alexandra Jaffe October 21, 2019 Zuckerberg will almost certainly be asked about those interference efforts on Wednesday, when he testifies before the House financial services committee. overall, in India, in Mexico, in Brazil.” “But part of why I’m confident going into 2020 is that we’ve played a role in defending against interference in every major election around the world since 2016, in France, in Germany, in the E.U. However, the Facebook CEO said he was “confident” in the company’s ability to fight those efforts: “We do see today Russia and Iran and China increasingly with more sophisticated tactics are trying to interfere in election. They signal that these nation-states intend to be active in the upcoming elections.” Zuckerberg told NBC’s Lester Holtin an interview airing tonight: “Today, what we’re basically announcing is that we found a set of campaigns. However, she did not criticize Buttigieg by name.įacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked to NBC News about the company’s finding that multiple countries, including Russia and Iran, have already tried to meddle in the 2020 election. When asked about Zuckerberg’s recommendations earlier today, Elizabeth Warren said that Facebook had too much “political influence” and reiterated her call to break up major tech companies. I think that this probably should not be misconstrued as if I’m deeply involved in trying to support their campaign or anything like that.” The CEO added: “When a number of colleagues who I’d worked with at Facebook or my philanthropic foundation were interested in working there, they asked me or my wife Priscilla to send over their resume. The pair attended Harvard University together. We have several mutual friends in college who introduced me” several years ago to Buttigieg. Zuckerberg told CBS News: “This shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement. 21.01 BST Zuckerberg confirms he recommended potential hires to Buttigieg's campaignįacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed Bloomberg News’ reporting that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, recommended potential hires to Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign earlier this year. Connolly (D-Va.) and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) both plan to launch bids to succeed Cummings as Oversight chair. Like others, she declined to speak in great detail about the contours of her bid out of respect for Cummings’s passing last week.Īccording to people familiar with their plans, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly, Reps. Maloney (D-N.Y.) is serving as active chair of the committee, as its most senior Democratic member, and she said in a brief interview Friday that she intends to seek the gavel on a permanent basis. The candidates range from the most senior to more junior Democrats on the panel, represent a mix of genders and races, and have focused on different areas of the committee’s work, from citizenship and census matters to its current investigations into Trump’s administration and business dealings. The funeral for representative Elijah Cummings is not taking place until Thursday, but the power struggle within the House Democratic caucus to take over the oversight committee has already started.
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