Most U.S. voters have unfavorable views of Amazon's founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos and Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as per a recent survey by The Tech Oversight Project.
65% of registered voters have somewhat or very unfavorable opinions about Zuckerberg, who leads the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Another 59% have similar sentiments about Bezos according to the survey.
A smaller portion, 45%, hold an unfavorable opinion of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, while 44% have negative views of Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Sacha Haworth, the executive director of The Tech Oversight Project, expressed that due to the harmful effects of social media platforms on youth, AI scams, harmful algorithms, and tech companies potentially compromising national security by working with China and Russia, it's not surprising that the American people lack confidence in the current state of our digital lives.
CEOs of major tech companies were summoned before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year to discuss online safety for children. They faced questioning from lawmakers from both sides of the aisle for nearly four hours.
During a January hearing, Zuckerberg and other tech CEOs were criticized by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for running products that they allege are harmful.The criticism targeted Zuckerberg specifically, with accusations that his product is 'killing people'.”
The survey was carried out by Public Policy Polling with 568 registered voters on March 26 and 27, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
