After launching "Threads", a social media program similar to Elon Musk's "Twitter", Mark Zuckerberg was caught in the woods. Musk's lawyers have sent him a "cease and desist letter" expressing "serious concerns" about the "systematic, intentional and illegal misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property."
Zuckerberg has not said how he will respond, but apparently this is not the first time he has been considered "plagiarized", which he himself has denied.
According to the New York Post on July 8, local time, the founder of "Facebook" has spent as much as $43 million (about 310 million RMB) on security in the past three years, but at the same time, the family foundation jointly owned by him and his wife Priscilla Chen supports groups aimed at abolishing the police.
Wherever Zuckerberg goes, he is accompanied by several bodyguards to keep him safe, and the expenses incurred come from the company he founded, Meta, because according to the company's rules, the CEO can use the money to pay for "additional personnel, equipment, services, home improvements" and other security-related needs.
Just this year, Zuckerberg also significantly increased his security costs to $14 million (about 101 million RMB) in order to increase efforts to protect his wife and three daughters, not including unplanned expenses.
It can be seen that Zuckerberg really spares a lot of money in protecting the safety of himself and his family, but he does not seem to care so much about the safety of others.
It is reported that he and his wife Priscilla Chan, who is a Hmong in Vietnam, have used huge funds to support anti-police groups, and have donated 3 million US dollars (about 21.66 million RMB) from 2020 to now.
The group's main purpose is to "diminish the role of police in the community and give an alternative vision of public safety," though they don't list what those alternatives might be. In addition, the group claims to have played a significant role in cutting the Oakland Police Department's $18 million (about 130 million RMB) budget.
And just after the budget cuts, local robberies in Oakland increased by 22 per cent from last year and violent crime increased by 18 per cent.
After Zuckerberg's practices were revealed, there was a lot of discussion on social media, and most people had difficulty understanding his behavior, calling him a veritable egoist. "He's really hypocritical, he has everything, but ordinary people can't even have the most basic public safety," one person commented. Another person said that Zuckerberg was trying to destroy other people's lives, "It's scary, is he trying to establish his own order with financial resources?" ”
In addition, the New York Post also pointed out that Zuckerberg's hypocrisy is not only reflected in security, he covered the faces of his two eldest daughters when posting family photos, but the Instagram he owns is "monetizing" user data, resulting in a large amount of personal information being made public, "Even Zach does not believe that his platform can make his children show their faces," one netizen said sarcastically.