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From Facebook to the Vatican: Zuckerberg Gives Pope Francis Drone

© REUTERS / Osservatore RomanoPope Francis shakes hands with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a meeting at the Vatican August 29, 2016
Pope Francis shakes hands with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a meeting at the Vatican August 29, 2016 - Sputnik International
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On August 29, founder of Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, met with Pope Francis and presented him a toy drone model, according to Zuckerberg’s Facebook post.

On Monday, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan met with the Bishop of Rome to discuss the importance of technology to fight poverty.

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The founder of Facebook spoke about the Aquila project. It is a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), designed to provide settlements in developing countries with Internet facilities.

At the end of the meeting, Zuckerberg gave Pope Francis an Aquila model, and noted the pontiff’s unforgettable “warmth and kindness.”

In recent years, Pope Francis has repeatedly met with representatives of leading IT-companies and Internet services.

In February, he discussed the “image effect” with the founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, and in January, met with Apple CEO Tim Cook. A week earlier, he held a meeting with the Google’s board chairman Eric Schmidt and the head of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen.

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