Like the remainder of the tech billionaire class, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has determined to surrender any pretense of ethics with a view to cozy as much as President-elect Donald Trump.
Zuckerberg killed Meta’s truth checking and ended the entire firm’s variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) packages.
With a view to do some harm management—and to audition for the Trump administration’s favor—Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan’s podcast, which has develop into a discussion board for billionaires to behave aggrieved as they take management of the nation. When Rogan requested Zuckerberg to elaborate on how he has develop into a sufferer of a politicized authorities, Zuckerberg rambled on.
“So we had organizations that were looking into us that were, like, not really involved with social media. Like I think like the CFPB like, this, financial—I don’t even know what it stands for. It’s the … it’s the financial organization that Elizabeth Warren had set up. And, and it’s basically, it’s like, we’re not a bank,” he mentioned.
The Shopper Monetary Safety Bureau (CFPB), which began beneath the Dodd-Frank Wall Avenue Reform and Shopper Safety Act , has been investigating Meta over allegations that it misuses non-public information for monetary acquire.
The concept that Zuckerberg doesn’t know what the CFPB is or that it doesn’t solely contain banks (having additionally investigated Apple, Amazon, Google, and many others.) is extremely disingenuous. He’s both so outrageously dumb that shareholders should drive him to go away the enterprise, or he’s mendacity on Rogan’s present for a motive.
“They kind of found some theory they wanted to investigate. And it’s like, okay, clearly they were trying really hard, right? To like, to like, find, find some theory, but it, like, I don’t know. It just, it kind of, like, throughout the, the, the, the, the party and the government, there was just sort of, I don’t know if it’s, I don’t know how this stuff works. I mean, I’ve never been in government,” Zuckerberg instructed Rogan.
Is the CEO of Meta speaking in regards to the CFPB’s investigation? Or perhaps he’s speaking in regards to the upcoming anti-trust trial between Meta and the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC). Since Trump’s first time period, Meta has been combating to maintain anti-trust legal guidelines from breaking apart its management of Fb and Instagram.
Outgoing FTC Chair Lina Khan instructed CNBC that she wasn’t stunned corporations like Meta try to “get some type of sweetheart deal” from the incoming Trump administration.
Whereas on Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg cravenly appealed to the insecure and aggrieved male viewers, telling Rogan that the “corporate world is pretty culturally neutered,” earlier than arguing that “masculine energy” was missing within the workforce right now.
“It’s one thing to say we want to be kind of, like, welcoming and make a good environment for everyone, and I think it’s another to basically say that ‘masculinity is bad,’” he mentioned.
In response to The New York Instances, the ever-masculine Zuckerberg adopted that up a number of days later by throwing his former COO Sheryl Sandberg beneath the bus for Meta’s earlier DEI insurance policies.
Zuckerberg has secured his particular VIP seat at Trump’s inauguration, together with fellow oligarchs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Now he simply wants all of these pesky client safety watchdogs to go away.
