Mark Zuckerberg Has Quietly Advised Buttigieg on Campaign Hires

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9. "guilt by association" is so common here, but this isn't even as bad as it sounds

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Buttigieg knew Zuckerberg and had done a Facebook Live event with him (actually before the campaign, but that would not be an unreasonable thing for a campaign to do anyway). Later some impressed-with-Pete facebook employees asked to be put in touch with the campaign. So the recommendation was initiated by the people who wanted to work for Pete, not by facebook/zuckerberg.

Question: If a facebook employee went to Zuckerberg and said, "You know Buttigieg, and we'd like to work for his campaign, could you please send a recommendation for me?" what should Zuckerberg have done?

From the linked article, which so many here seem to be commenting about without having read it:

A spokesman for the Zuckerberg-Chan family told Bloomberg News that the employees asked the tech mogul and Chan to recommend them.

“Having seen Mark’s visit to South Bend in 2017 and Facebook Live with Mayor Buttigieg, colleagues later asked Mark and Priscilla to connect them with the Buttigieg campaign as they were interested in joining,” spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement. Zuckerberg visited South Bend, Indiana, in April 2017 as part of his philanthropic work and got a tour from Buttigieg, that Zuckerberg live-streamed.

Zuckerberg, 35, and Buttigieg, 37, overlapped at Harvard, and Buttigieg was friends with two of Zuckerberg’s roommates. He was also one of Facebook’s first 300 users. But they were only introduced years later by a mutual Harvard friend.