Shira Ovide, Columnist

Facebook Election Turns Into a Protest

Many stock owners not named Zuckerberg vote against his supervoting power.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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For most companies, adhering to the gold standards of shareholder democracy doesn't matter. Until it does.

That's worth remembering in the case of Facebook Inc., where the shareholders did the corporate election equivalent of storming the king's castle.