Zuckerberg Slowly Moving Into Politics

By siliconindia  |  Monday, 30 November -1, 05:30 IST

Bangalore: Chief executive officers of some of America's top tech companies; including Google, Facebook and Microsoft have joined hands to champion the major issues surrounding United States immigration policy.

The group which Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls FWD.U.S., enables him to slowly wade into the politics and help America's undocumented immigrants along with pushing immigration reforms in the United States.

"We have a strange immigration policy which is unfit in today's world," Zuckerberg wrote in a Washington Post Op-Ed article yesterday.

The new group says it will lobby in Congress and White House along with using social-media tools to mobilize public support for immigration reforms, better schools and more funding for scientific research.

Along with Zuckerberg, the group's initial supporters are Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Yelp Chairman Max Levchin, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Zynga CEO Marc Pincus and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, along with influential venture capitalists Ron Conway, Jim Breyer and John Doerr.

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Source: PTI

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