The crowd was protesting Facebook's refusal to remove political advertisements that share disinformation ahead of the 2020 election.
allowing politicians to pay to target specific demographics with disinformation around the 2016 presidential election., as in 2011, Facebook settled with the Federal Trade Commission over privacy charges, and in 2007, Zuckerberg had to apologize for his Beacon project which shared users' online purchases with their friends.
While the protesters gathered outside Zuckerberg's home in the Mission District of San Francisco, he was in Brussels, Belgium, to lobby European officials in charge of digital policies. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and John Giannandrea, senior vice president for artificial intelligence at Apple, also visited Brussels.
This week, the European Commission will address regulation for Artificial Intelligence and the digital economy, which could impact tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple. The first draft of the policy will be released on Wednesday.
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