Zuckerberg slams Trump in F8 opener: ‘Instead of building walls we can help build bridges’

Apr12

by Sindy Cator on April 12, 2016 at 5:43 pm

Mark Zuckerberg opened Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference with a few well-timed jabs at presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Speaking in front of a diverse crowd in San Francisco, Zuckerberg said: “it takes courage to choose hope over fear” before criticizing Trump’s controversial decision to build a wall to keep out Mexican immigrants — an asinine idea Fusion journalist Jorge Ramos poked significant holes in — by saying real change comes from those willing to be optimistic, not “fearful voices talking about building walls.” Zuckerberg goes on to say: Instead of building walls we can help build bridges. Instead of dividing people we…