George Soros calls for removal of Zuckerberg and Sandberg from Facebook

In a letter to the editor published Tuesday in The Financial Times, billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros demands that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg be “removed from control of Facebook.”

The letter is an apparent response to an article by Zuckerberg published two days earlier in The Times in which he calls for more clear cut government regulation in Big Tech.

Soros, in his letter, argues that Zuckerberg and Sandberg, Facebook’s CEO and chief operating officer, respectively, are engaged in a “mutual assistance arrangement with Donald Trump that will help him to get re-elected.”

In addition, the 89-year-old Soros, who has given billions to liberal and progressive causes, calls in his letter for Facebook to stop accepting any political advertising, while acknowledging that it's “unlikely that Facebook will follow this course.”

Facebook was heavily scrutinized in 2018 for a massive data scandal, when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had, without consent, collected the personal data of millions of Facebook profiles and used the information for political advertising purposes.