WASHINGTON – Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might be willingto swap a life in politics to lead the world’s largest social-networkingcompany, a media report said.
On being asked by Attorney General Maura Healey, a democrat fromMassachusetts, which company she would want to be the CEO of, Clintondidn’t pause before quickly answering “Facebook”, CNET reported on Friday.
“It’s the biggest news platform in the world. Most people in our countryget their news — true or not from Facebook,” Clinton was quoted as saying.
The former US presidential candidate was at Harvard on Friday receiving theRadcliffe Medal, which honours people who have “had a transformative impacton society”.
Facebook is working to win back its users’ trust following a series ofrecent controversies, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in whichdata from as many as 87 million Facebook users was improperly shared withthe political consultancy.
In a bid to prevent foreign interference into elections, Facebook has alsobegun labelling all political and issue ads in the US — including a “Paidfor by” disclosure from the advertiser at the top of the advertisement.
Advertisers wanting to run ads with political content in the US will alsoneed to verify their identity and location.