Mark Zuckerberg bends the knee and has become a Donald Trump-supporting, cage-fighting conservative whose 2025 slogan might as well be Make Facebook Great Again. At this point, he seems to be reshaping Meta in the MAGA image. Last week, Zuckerberg announced plans to loosen restrictions on speech on the likes of Facebook and Instagram, recommend more political content on the platforms and abandon independent fact-checking in a bid to, as he put it, “get back to our roots around free expression”.
At 40 it seem Zuckerberg is going through a mid-life rebrand and his platform continues to show its well past its prime. The question I have at this point is whether this is a genuine shift in Zuckerberg’s beliefs, or a way of currying favor with Trump. I want to think it's a pathetic attempt to save Facebook, but at this point it's looking like an actual conversion. He's giving real Joe Rogan vibes, Zuckerberg became a devotee mixed martial arts (MMA) and jiu-jitsu fighter. On Friday, he actually appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast where he gave some insights into why Meta has made major corporate policy changes like ending its diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programs, ordering the removal of tampons from men’s bathrooms (which had been supplied for transgender and non-binary employees), and replacing global affairs chief Nick Clegg with Republican lobbyist Joel Kaplan... The interview saw had plenty of criticisms of the Biden’s administration and his company’s fact-checking procedures.
Long gone are the days of Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg teaming up at Stanford University in 2016 and his support of democrats. I also think long gone are the days of Facebook and Instagram as the backlash from this transformation has spurred outrage online. With user's pointing out how AI, misinformation and boomer post are flooding the site. I cant wait to see if this is the end of Meta!
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