Mark Zuckerberg takes a jab at Snapchat's India disaster: Facebook is for everybody, 'not just the high end' (FB)

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April 19, 2017 12:27 AM

Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook is for everybody, "not just the high end," after Snap CEO Evan Spiegel came into the center of a storm of trouble in India.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

It's subtle, but Zuckerberg is very likely alluding to Snapchat's reputation as an app for the affluent, especially in the wake of the India scandal.

While Zuckerberg acknowledges that some of Facebook's camera features do look a lot like Snapchat's, his company is investing heavily in apps like the 200 million user-strong Facebook Lite, which makes the service more accessible to people in emerging markets with slow internet connections. Plus, Facebook is working on ways to connect the whole world to the internet with drones and other sci-fi technology.

In general, though, Zuckerberg tells TechCrunch that he's "

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