Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Breaking News

Is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Dipping His Toes Into Political World?

Is Mark Zuckerberg starting to dip his toes into the political ocean?

Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg has been making headlines recently for “Lean In,” her new book on women’s leadership. It turns out her boss Zuckerberg has a side project as well: a new advocacy group.

Zuckerberg is forming an organization along with other executives to advocate for immigration reform, Politico reported.

Politico said the group would tap both Democratic and Republican strategists and “would advocate long-term economic issues,” according to its sources.

Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate, Joe Green, is another tech powerhouse behind the group. He’s a co-founder of the social and community organizing platforms Causes and NationBuilder and is now at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Both Green and Facebook declined to comment, Politico said.

Zuckerberg may have committed as much as $20 million to the nascent organization, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Until recently, Zuckerberg, who grew up in a Reform Jewish home, had been noticeably absent from the political and policy worlds, though he and his wife hosted a fundraiser for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in February. The tech billionaire hasn’t made any donations to candidates and only small contributions to political action groups, the web site said.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.