{"id":31885,"date":"2019-02-05T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31885"},"modified":"2019-02-05T09:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:23:31","slug":"early-facebook-investor-blasts-company-in-new-book-zucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31885","title":{"rendered":"Early Facebook investor blasts company in new book &#8216;Zucked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York  (CNN Business)<\/cite>Facebook is bad for democracy and its executives have put profits over their civic responsibilities, an early investor in the company charges in a new book. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Tech investor Roger McNamee makes these claims in &#8220;Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook catastrophe,&#8221; due out on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">McNamee has said he served as a mentor to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook&#8217;s early years and discouraged the young entrepreneur from selling the business for $1 billion to a bigger tech company. Facebook is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2019\/02\/business\/facebook-history-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">currently worth<\/a> about $500 billion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Facebook is bad for democracy and its executives have put profits over their civic responsibilities, an early investor in the company charges in a new book. Tech investor Roger McNamee makes these claims in &#8220;Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook catastrophe,&#8221; due out on Tuesday.McNamee has said he served as a mentor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}