Amy Goodman
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Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor speaks out against Facebook: "The law does not protect you"
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8:33Now PlayingRoger McNamee was an early investor in Facebook and a mentor to the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Ahead of Zuckerberg's hearing before Congress on Wednesday, where he will discuss his plan to launch a Facebook-owned cryptocurrency called Libra, McNamee spoke with us about the dangers Facebook poses to democratic society and his process of becoming disillusioned with the project — starting with Russian interference in the elections of 2016. "Mark believes the mission of connecting the whole world on one seamless, frictionless platform is the most important thing anybody can do on Earth, and it justifies any means necessary to get there," McNamee says of his former mentee. "The law does not protect you if your users believe you're undermining democracy, if they believe you're harming civil rights, if you're harming public health, if you're harming privacy."
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