Meta's new look
Donald Trump Won. Now Mark Zuckerberg Is Reshaping Meta
If you had any doubt that Meta was changing in order to please the new president, that's over now, Peter Kafka writes.
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The Lede
sometimes the obvious thing is the obvious thing. Which is to say: You can make pro and con arguments for many of the massive changes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced about the way his company is going to moderate — or not moderate — content. It's a complicated topic. But the most important takeaway is that all of Tuesday's news has been rolled out specifically for Donald Trump, and the new political regime that officially kicks into gear on January 20.
Key Details
- The changes follows a series of moves Zuckerberg and Meta have made to make nice with Trump and Republicans, which began before November's election.
- so getting rid of third-party fact-checking of controversial posts in favor of the "Community Notes" system Elon Musk's Twitter/X uses, might very well be what Zuckerberg thinks makes sense.
- The same goes for the demotion of Meta's Trust and safety team — which is most definitely what Zuckerberg intends by moving those operations from California to Texas.
