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Is Mark Zuckerberg An Oligarch?

The Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar argues that Facebook’s strategy of aligning with governments to avoid regulation has become borderline criminal. “Oligarchs are immoral business leaders who, as Russia’s Vladimir Putin defined them in the Financial Times, use their ‘proximity to the authorities to receive super profits,’” she writes. “That makes me wonder: is there any better description of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg … than an American oligarch?

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