In The Age Of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As The New Statesmen
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Welcome to 2016: where tech’s biggest CEOs are selling themselves as world leaders.
Charlie Warzel
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t running for president of the United States, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
On Tuesday morning, the Facebook CEO kicked off the company’s annual developers conference in San Francisco with a
glancing shot
at Donald Trump, followed by a reiteration of the company’s
oft-repeated pledge to bring the world together. Zuckerberg spoke for
only 30 minutes or so and he spent many of them on what he touted as
Facebook’s benevolent efforts to bring universal access to information —
and prosperity — to underdeveloped nations. “We are one global
community,” he told the crowd, invoking climate change, the Syrian
refugee crisis, and touching on world events from Sierra Leone to India.
All this at a
developers conference, mind you.
Zuck’s not
alone. Last month Apple CEO Tim Cook led his keynote with a similar
stump-speech vibe. He dove right into the company’s national security
and privacy fight against the FBI, before addressing plans to reduce
Apple’s environmental impact and detailing its efforts to advance
medical research and “lay the foundation to transform care.”
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