First social networks, then finance, and now politics. The indiscretion comes from Wall Street Journal e Politico.com: 28-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and the youngest billionaire in the world according to Forbes with his 9,4 billion dollars of assets, descends into politics.
He does so in the company of his old snack buddy at Harvard, Joe Green, and other illustrious names from Silicon Valley (including, for example, the owner of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman), to create a lobby that has one main goal: relax laws governing access to US nationality. The reason is very simple: hi-tech companies in the United States increasingly need to welcome brainiacs from abroad, but too often the strict immigration regulations also constitute an obstacle for the job market.
The political neoformation, which does not yet have a name and which would like to raise an amount of around 50 million dollars, thus sets itself the goal of put pressure on the US Congress to intervene on existing legislation and make it more flexible, also taking the opportunity to put his hand on education reform and why not to try to bring home more funds for scientific research.
But which side will the political Zuckerberg take? The co-founder of the most used social network on the planet is actually not new to political engagement: last February he organized a fundraiser for the re-election of the Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, but in the past he has not neglected the Democratic Party either, meeting President Obama several times with whom he also organized an electoral forum on the platform Facebook.
This time, however, we don't take the field to support or sympathize: Zuckerberg is serious, so much so that according to the Politico website he would have already secured the services of prominent personalities in the circles of power with stars and stripes. In fact, in the team of the nascent lobby, there is talk of Joe Lockhart, former communications manager for the Clinton administration, by Rob Jesmer, former spokesman for the Republican group in the Senate, and by Jon Lerner, historic eminence grise of the conservative party.
