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"I realise that it may not be an easy step to take, but it's an important step that would be to his benefit, to his shareholders’ benefit, to employees… and to the users and the communities around the world that use Facebook every day.”
Facebook declined to offer comment for this story, other than to point the BBC in the direction of its official response to the shareholders’ proposal.
It said, in part: "We believe that our current board structure is in the best interests of our stockholders. Therefore, our board of directors recommends that our stockholders vote against this proposal.”
In simpler times, back in 2015, Mark Zuckerberg had just had his first child with wife Priscilla Chan, and at the same time announced his intention to gradually step away from the day-to-day running of Facebook.
With these issues swirling, that transition might need to happen sooner than Mr Zuckerberg would have hoped.