One might assume that Mark Zuckerberg’s houses consist primarily of sleek Silicon Valley mansions. That’s not wrong—the Facebook (now known as Meta) founder does own a compound not far from his office—but as his fortune has grown over the years,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slighted his company's home state of California in a video announcing new content policies for Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying legacy media person, into his home. In April 2018, I ventured there to hear his plans to do the right thing.
Meta is reportedly set to cut around five percent of its workforce. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will lay off the lowest performers.
Senator Markwayne Mullin told right-wing commentator Benny Johnson on an episode of The Benny Show Thursday that Zuckerberg had begun speaking regularly with the president-elect. “Mark met with President Trump the day before he announced that they were going to change the way they do censorship, essentially,” Mullin said.
In that spirit, on Tuesday he announced that the trust and safety teams who write content policy for Facebook, Meta, and Threads would be moving from California to Texas. Facebook’s content cops will trade In & Out for Whataburger.
Shou Zi Chew was an intern at Facebook before he became Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest competitor as CEO of TikTok. Shou Zi Chew may be the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest competitor, TikTok, but at the start of his career,
Zuckerberg claimed to be “excited” by “the opportunity to restore free expression,” but few who commented on his speech felt similarly thrilled. Those on the left wrote him off as a sellout. Those on the right wondered where Zuckerberg’s principles were during the past four years of judicial persecution and censorship.
It's true that powerful forces control what you can see on Facebook and Instagram. But it's not the media calling those shots.
I think a lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered,” the Meta CEO told Joe Rogan, a day after axing Meta's DEI programs. “... I think having a culture that celebrates aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.