Accusing the social media giant Facebook of actively working in opposition to “democracy and human rights,” the internet freedom and civil rights group Fight for the Future greeted the company’s shareholders arriving for their annual meeting in Palo Alto, Calif. Wednesday night with a demand that they fire CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The group projected the message “Fire Zuck” onto the side of the Hotel Nia.
“Facebook has violated billions of people’s basic rights, harvested and abused our data in nauseating ways, and shown reckless disregard for the human impact of its products,” said Fight for the Future in a statement. “Facebook’s current business practices are fundamentally at odds with democracy and human rights.”
The projection on Wednesday night followed an open letter from the group demanding the removal of Zuckerberg, citing the company’s repeated privacy breaches, which gathered thousands of signatures.
The group noted on Twitter that the action also followed a recent call from Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer, for Zuckerberg to step down.
“There is a legitimate argument that he has too much power,” Stamos said on the podcast Recode Decode. “He needs to give up some of that power. If I was him, I would go hire a new CEO for the company…He should hire a CEO that can help signal both internally and externally that the culture has to change.”
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