Can Facebook Help Empower Women in India?

A question about fake accounts on Facebook led co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to offer his thoughts on what he perceives as a “social issue” in India.

MarkZuckerbergQABarcelona03042015A question about fake accounts on Facebook led co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to offer his thoughts on what he perceives as a “social issue” in India.

Zuckerberg hosted a town-hall question-and-answer session (embedded below) in Barcelona, Spain, where he attended Mobile World Congress, and one of the questions involved fake accounts on the social network. He replied:

We have a specific issue that we’ve seen in India and a few other countries. In most countries around the world, what we see is that the number of people who use Facebook, if you split it by men and women, is about equal.

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