Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure to defend himself as one of America’s premier media critics called for him to step aside as chairman of the board, citing a “serious crisis” at the tech giant.
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote a scathing piece on Monday that declared Zuckerberg is “incapable of leading the broken behemoth that is Facebook.” She wrote that the Facebook founder blame-shifts, hides, denies and speaks “in the worst kind of fuzzy corporate clichés” when he’s faced with business disasters.
The veteran media critic said that if Zuckerberg sticks around — despite investors calling for his job — then he should at least “step down as chairman and appoint an independent director to oversee the board.”