Mark Zuckerberg gets attention for the wrong reason
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump before removing misinformation guardrails and fact-checks, Oklahoma GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin claimed on Thursday. In an interview with right-wing commentator Benny Johnson,
The Meta CEO is remaking himself — and his company — as Trump sets a new tone for the country.
Republicans have heaped praise on Meta for eliminating its fact-checking program and scaling back its content restrictions ahead of President-elect Donald Trump ’s inauguration, touting the changes as a welcome step toward addressing their concerns over “censorship.”
I think we're doing the right thing,” he told me, “It’s just that we should've done it sooner.” Seven years later, Zuckerberg no longer thinks more moderation is the right thing. In a five-minute Reel,
Silicon Valley elites showed up for a candlelit dinner, three official inaugural balls, and other events celebrating Donald Trump's return to office.
The Meta mogul is making moves that could curry favor with the president-elect, ending its DEI program, bashing "legacy media" and swapping in GOP-friendly lobbyists.
An employee memo from Meta’s vice president of human resources Janelle Gale, which was obtained by Axios, announced five major changes to Meta’s “hiring, development and procurement practices,” amid the shifting “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States”—i.e., the return of Donald Trump.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Trump a day ahead of announcing the social media network will eliminate its fact-checking program to ...
“Mark met ... towards the GOP. “He wants to train – He actually wants to get in the cage and fight. He said, ‘I’d love for you to come down and spar if we can.’” Zuckerberg isn ...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.
Zuckerberg is mending fences with Trump after having banned his Facebook and Instagram accounts following the Jan 6 capitol riots. One of the latest moves on Zuckerberg’s part was a recent decision to end third-party fact-checking on Facebook to restore 'free speech.