RELATED: ACTIVIST INVESTORS FILE TO OUST MARK ZUCKERBERG AS FACEBOOK CHAIRMAN Zuckerberg retains a controlling stake in the company due to the class of stock that he possesses as Facebook's founder, granting his vote ten times the weight of regular shareholders. Still, the vote against him is increasing over time. In 2017, a similar vote only garnered 50% of the vote among shareholders. Placed on the agenda at Facebook's annual shareholder meeting by Trillium Asset Management, which owns about $7 million in Facebook stock, the proposal comes in direct response to the recent slew of controversies around the social media company's privacy and data protection policies. "What we are seeing right now is really a quite deep well of concern of the concentration of power in one individual like we see with Mark Zuckerberg," Jonas Krone, Trillium Asset Management's Senior Vice President, told Yahoo Finance's YFi PM. "This is a shareholder proposal that in 2017 got 50% of the vote.