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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to visit India on 28th October

He asked Facebook users to submit questions as comments on his post, adding that he would answer them at the event and take questions from the audience.

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After hosting Townhall Q&A session with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27th September at Facebook Headquarters, Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook will be hosting another Townhall Questions & Answers session at IIT-Delhi later this month. He will be hosting the company’s next Townhall Q&A in Delhi on Wednesday, October 28 at 12 pm.

A Facebook spokesperson said Zuckerberg would “meet developers, partners and others who are building new digital services and working on ways to connect more people to them”.

“India is personally very important to the history of our company”, Zuckerberg had said at Facebook’s headquarters in California last month. So far, the concerns range from light-hearted ones like how to stop candy crush requests and whether Facebook will ever introduce a dislike button, to serious questions demanding an explanation of his intentions behind Internet.org and the impact it could have on start-ups in India. The San Francisco event was webcast live on the Facebook profiles of both Modi and Zuckerberg.

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Modi had also congratulated him on the success and had invited Zuckerberg to India. Zuckerberg made this announcement on his FB post. Earlier recognized as Internet.org, it’s an open platform across 19 developing countries by Facebook. India forms the largest userbase for the social media giant outside the U.S. by having 125 million users of its 1.44 billion global userbase. “I went and saw one of my mentors, Steve Jobs, and he told me that in order to reconnect with what I believed is the mission of the company, I should visit this temple that he had gone to in India early in his evolution of thinking about what he wanted Apple and his vision of the future to be”.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to visit India on 28 October for townhall Q&A