Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's called Obama to express frustration over government's internet behavior

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  said Thursday that he has called President Obama in frustration over what he says is ‘the damage the government is creating for all of our future.’

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, said Thursday that he has called President Obama to express his frustration over reports on the U.S. government’s Internet behavior, saying that it is damaging the Internet.
In his own Facebook post Thursday, the CEO said the call is not going to lead to any reforms in the short term, and called upon the website’s users toward building a more secure Internet.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his own social network Thursday, stating that his engineers have been working to improve security.

“They need to be much more transparent about what they’re doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst,” Zuckerberg said.

While Zuckerberg does not mention any specific reports by name, it comes a day after The Intercept reports that the National Security Agency has the ability to fake a Facebook server in order to infect and examine a target’s computer, according to files provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The exploit is part of a system codenamed TURBINE, designed to automate tasks previously done manually by the agency’s hackers. Among other eavesdropping tactics referenced include sending out spam emails with malware that can be tailored to record audio from a computer’s microphone and take snapshots with its webcam.