He succeeds Ankhi Das, who quit in October last year. She was embroiled on a controversy for opposing enforcement of hate-speech rules against right-wing leaders in the country.

Aggarwal, in this role, will define and lead important policy development initiatives for Facebook in India on an agenda that covers user safety, data protection and privacy, inclusion and internet governance, a statement said.

In this role, Aggarwal will report to Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director India, and will be a part of the India leadership team, it added.

His last assignment was with Uber, where he was the Head of Public Policy for India and South Asia, the statement said.

Aggarwal comes with 26 years of experience as an Indian Administrative Officer (IAS), and has worked as a District Magistrate in nine districts across the state of Uttar Pradesh.

During his tenure as an administrative officer, he steered India’s first ever-national policy on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) as Joint Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (M/o Commerce), and was instrumental in the digital transformation on India’s IP offices, the statement said.

“The data shows that 85% of Facebook users in the US have been or want to be vaccinated against Covid-19,” Facebook said in a corporate blog post by Guy Rosen, a company vice president. “President Biden’s goal was for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed.”

Covid-19 misinformation has spread during the pandemic on social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet Inc-owned YouTube. Researchers and lawmakers have long accused Facebook of failing to police harmful content on its platforms.

The company has introduced rules against making specific false claims about Covid-19 and vaccines for it, and says it provides people with reliable information on these topics.

Trump is seeking class-action status for the lawsuits, meaning he would represent the interest of other users of Twitter, Facebook, and Google’s YouTube who allege they have been unfairly silenced. He filed three lawsuits making similar allegations one against Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and one against Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, and one against Google and its CEO Sundar Pichai.

“We will achieve a historic for American freedom and at the same time, freedom of speech,” Trump said at a news conference at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. A Twitter representative declined to comment. Representatives of Facebook and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump lost his social media megaphone this year after the companies said he violated their policies against glorifying violence. Hundreds of his supports launched a deadly assault on the US Capitol on Jan. 6 after a Trump speech repeating his false claims that his elections defeat was the result of widespread fraud, an assertion rejected by multiple courts, state election officials, and members of his own administration.

Early Life and Education

Mark Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York in 1984. He belongs to a well-educated family. Zuckerberg was interested to develop programming at an early age. He was, 12 years old, created a messaging program as Zucknet that was implemented as an inter-office communication system for his father’s dental practice. His parent saw his ability and success. So, they brought a computer programming tutor while he was still in high school.

Success Story

Many intelligent people attend Harvard University, soon Zuckerberg known as the go-to computer programmer on campus. When he was in his second year in his academy, he had built two programs there are CourseMatch and FaceMash. Both programs were popular but University shut down the programs.

Zuckerberg and his friends partnered to create a social networking site and that allowed Harvard students to connect with each other. Officially, in June 2004, declared as the name ‘The Facebook’.

Many venture capitals were attracted to the use of Facebook. At the first time, Facebook received a venture capital investment from Accel Partners which invested $12.7 million in the site. Facebook got offers from like Yahoo and Microsoft, increased its users. Its market cap touches $932 billion. Whereas Zuckerberg has around 375 million Facebook shares with 60% voting rights.

Current Influence

The net worth of Zuckerberg is $119 billion in 2021 but he will donate at least 50% of his net worth to philanthropic causes before he dies. For example, he donated more than $100 million to save the Newark school system in New Jersey.

When his daughter Max was born in 2015, 99% of their net worth will be given during their lifetime authored an open letter by Mark Zuckerburg and his wife Priscilla Chan. some people were criticized about this and said that Zuckerberg and Chan have set up limited liability corporation, not a charitable trust. As a result, the corporation can make for-profit investment and political donation.