How Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta to the right
How Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta to the right
In recent months, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a series of specific moves to signal that Meta may embrace a more conservative administration.
Summary
Mark Zuckerberg has shifted Meta's policies and leadership toward conservative positions, signaling alignment with a potential Trump administration.
Key moves include ending professional fact-checking, reinstating Trump’s accounts, criticizing the Biden administration’s COVID-19 policies, and promoting Republican-aligned executives like Joel Kaplan.
Meta has also faced scrutiny for supporting Trump-aligned figures and causes, including donating to his inaugural fund.
Zuckerberg, previously supportive of some progressive initiatives, now emphasizes reduced content moderation, citing political and regulatory pressures.
Critics view this as a strategic pivot amid evolving U.S. political dynamics.
Facebook was always right-wing. Have people already forgotten the way they manually adjusted their newsfeed algorithm to favour right-wing outlets? (PDF link) https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115561/documents/HHRG-118-IF16-20230328-SD038.pdf
More or less. Now the mask has fallen off.
Zuck himself has made some noises about being "misled" by progressives into .. being more progressive? A charitable interpretation would be that he was clueless and didn't understood the reasons behind what he was told or thought.
Pepperidge Farm remembers fb selling data to Cambridge analytica for cruz and Trump in 2016 and lying Zuckerberg was all we're sorry, we can do better.
he knows why we dont catch him in public.
With impunity, and a callous disregard for who will be harmed by this?
