Oprah Winfrey is to deliver an online commencement speech to the Class of 2020 as part of huge Facebook event. As students across the globe face the prospect of missing out on their graduation day celebrations due to the Covid-19 crisis, Facebook bosses announced on Tuesday that they will host an online event to honour U.S.
students’ academic achievements on 15 May. “This is a bittersweet time for the Class of 2020. As students head toward graduation, it’s not the day they might have imagined – no processions, no diploma handoffs, no parties,” Facebook executive Marne Levine wrote in a company blog post. “They are commencing at a time of great uncertainty.