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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by SilasX on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:07PM (#18341997)
Why wouldn't Zuckerberg ever buy Facebook ads? I doubt they'd let him run personal stuff for free, and I doubt they'd be sure he'd never want to run personal stuff.
Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by andrewflnr on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:15PM (#18342045)
The simplest way would be for him to say, "hey, I'm never going to buy ads on my own site, so don't let anyone impersonate me." If Zuck wants to tell us something on Facebook, he'll just put a banner at the top of our feed. Or if he does want to run ads as himself, he'll pull some other founder-fiat move. Keep in mind the engineering motto of the company we're talking about. They don't need to stick to the rules.
Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by SilasX on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:18PM (#18342069)
Corporate boards usually have controls against appropriating company resources for personal use.
Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by jimnotgym on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:01PM (#18342289)
Presumably there is a tax implication too? In the UK this would probably be a benefit-in-kind and taxed say it's market value as income.
Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by jjeaff on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:42AM (#18343589)
Yes. Same in the US. Things like private jet use are applied as income. However, I'm not sure you would have to do so at retail rates. For example, you would have to pay taxes on the cost of the private jet use. The marginal cost of something like running your personal ads on the favebook platform is so low as to probably not be considered "material" by the tax man.
Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by briandear on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:48PM (#18342220)
Considering he controls 60% of the company, such controls are meaningless.
Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by SilasX on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:03AM (#18343260)
The controls would be something agreee to as part of taking the company public or some stage of auditing.

Owning a controlling stake doesn’t mean you can fiddle around with every corporate asset at your whim.