A Facebook executive reportedly said that companies would die if they did not co-operate with it

Mark Zuckerberg “doesn’t care” about you and if you don’t co-operate with Facebook your business will die, one of the company’s executives told news publishers.

The comments — which Facebook alleges were misquoted — came in a four-hour off-the-record meeting between Campbell Brown, its head of news partnerships, and media executives in Sydney last week.

Five sources told The Australian that while discussing new initiatives and tools for publishers Ms Brown said: “Mark [Zuckerberg] doesn’t care about publishers but is giving me a lot of leeway and concessions to make these changes.”

According to the report, she said: “We will help you revitalise journalism . . . in a few years the reverse looks like I’ll be holding your hands with your dying business like