Facebook's Zuckerberg Challenges Donald Trump With Subtle Jab

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Mark Melin
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg challenged the ideas of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Tuesday, but is he taking a risk in coming out politically? Frequently, corporations avoid getting into controversial movements or overtly supporting one major political candidate over another. Taking political sides, on a statistical basis, is likely to alienate nearly 50% of the population. But Zuckerberg ignored these rules of conduct when he gave an “impassioned” speech in which he referenced Trump’s controversial position on immigration. Zuckerberg challenged Trump on building a wall without mentioning his name Speaking at Facebook’s F8 developer conference Tuesday, company CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg challenged…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.