Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump gamble pay off?
He risks making enemies elsewhere
“It feels like we’re in a new era now,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, as he announced sweeping changes to the firm’s social-media platforms in a video on January 7th. Two weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, Mr Zuckerberg outlined an overhaul of Meta’s content-moderation policy that meets many of the demands of American conservatives. The initiative says much about both the future of social media and the relationship between American business and government.
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