Even Big Tech’s toughest conservative critics must admit Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have had a good few months.
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s reelection last November, the $1 trillion company finally scrapped its worst woke initiatives, from Facebook’s infamous “fact-checking” regime to its internal DEI programming. Its sites are apparently no longer throttling political content. And Zuckerberg has even rebranded himself — going “all-in on a MAGA-dominated Washington,” buying a $23 million home two miles from the White House, and frequently rubbing shoulders with the president and his senior advisers.
With Meta’s very survival on the line in a landmark antitrust trial set to start next week, pundits from Washington to Wall Street to Silicon Valley are all wondering how much of an effect Zuckerberg’s political pivot will have on the case.
Let me suggest an answer: none.
