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Another ‘not like’ for Facebook

MSCI has given the newly-minted public company the second-worst possible rating for its policies on the environment, social responsibility and corporate governance

Facebook’s IPO may not have gone particularly well, and now MSCI has handed its newly-married founder, Mark Zuckerberg, another unwelcome wedding present.

MSCI's Environmental, Social and Governance research team, which rates the policies and procedures that companies have in place in these areas, has slapped the company with a distinctly uninspiring 'B' rating.

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