"My issue with Zuckerberg is his spinelessness and opportunism. Ask yourself this: is ...

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2025-01-13 11:40:11

"My issue with Zuckerberg is his spinelessness and opportunism. Ask yourself this: is there any chance that Zuckerberg would be making all these changes at Meta — he has also appointed Trump ally Dana White to the board, and replaced Nick Clegg with prominent Republican Joel Kaplan as president of global affairs — if Kamala Harris had won in November?

Even Trump himself doesn’t think so. Last year he warned that Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if the Meta boss attempted to “plot against” him. Asked on Tuesday whether Zuckerberg was “directly responding to the threats [Trump had] made to him in the past” with this fact-checking U-turn, the president-elect replied: “Probably.”

Zuckerberg might talk a good talk about how he is no longer going to be caving in to government demands, but he still is caving in — just to different ones. In many ways, all this means is that Zuckerberg is less dangerous than Musk. It is clear in which direction the influence was being exerted when the Meta boss went to have dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He goes where the wind blows."

https://www.ft.com/content/682ca921-ccfd-445e-b486-94f4b8542b12

#SocialMedia #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Trump #BigTechs

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