Stressed Facebook CEO Has ‘Nixon’ Moment

If you aren’t old enough to remember infamous 1997 post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon, maybe you saw the movie, “Frost/Nixon“ ? Fast forward to 2010 with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg as he fields questions during an interview at the D: All Things Digital conference. The comparison is not hard to make. Zuckerberg resembled a burger under a heat lamp as he sweated profusely while being questioned about recent privacy failures.

During an interview at the D: All Things Digital conference, Zuckerberg, described on the NYTimes.com Bits blog as being “visibly uncomfortable and sweating profusely”, defended his company against claims it was serving up too much private information on its members to third party web sites.

Reuters noted that “Zuckerberg began visibly perspiring, to the point that All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher had to ask if he was all right”. MarketWatch referred to it as his “Richard Nixon” moment.

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