Before Donald Trump set out his second term as a president, CEO and founder of MERK Zuckerberg’s Plastic Platforms, another great swing in reaching re -appointment.
In a conversation for nearly three hours with Joe RoganZuckerberg talked about the social media giant’s decision about the giant’s decision on social media to stop using the fact -finding specified to combat wrong information. Instead, users will be left to keep each other in the selection.
Zuckerberg criticized the outgoing media and administration, saying that Biden officials will routinely cry over the social network workers during the epidemic to ignore what the government considered misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines.
Rogan has millions of listeners, but Zuckerberg’s message about being a new day in Meta has already reached the person who may be more interested in him. A few days before broadcasting podcasts, Trump He commented that he is happy With changes in definition. He said that the company “has come a long way.”
Long road, in fact.
The appearance of podcasts was just the latest development in a lagging exercise in the company’s brand restoring by one of the most influential numbers in the technology industry. It has accelerated in recent months as Zuckerberg, who launched the reality verification program after Trump’s first victory in the elections and honestly on controversial issues such as immigration, found himself facing a new political fact.
Meta promoted Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global politics, donate a million dollars to the Trump opening fund, and made changes in moderation in the content and decreased equity and diversifying initiatives. Dana White, a close ally of Trump, and CEO of the final fighting championship, joined the Meta Council.
Zuckerberg is not the only technological leader who tries to appease Trump as other companies are racing against Meta to lead the development of artificial intelligence technologies that can redefine the media and other industries. Knowing that Trump can help or hinder his efforts, the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos, CEO of Openai, Sam Al -Tamman, CEO of Tesla Elusk, who spent more than 200 million dollars to support the Trump re -election campaign, has gone out on their way to put themselves in the good blessing of the president.
“When this is a decisive victory and you see someone like Elon who has such an effect and presence in the room, if I am a market, I am sure of hell, make sure that I am on the table,” said Katie Harbth, CEO of Anchor Change, a technology consulting company and former director of Facebook.
High risk tremors have become more clear after the start of Chinese technology Dibsic Amnesty International, who claimed the company at a cost of less than its competitors in the United States.
Zuckerberg said that Meta AI – an assistant who can answer questions and generate photos – expects to serve more than a billion people in 2025. The social media giant said to invest up to $ 65 billion in capital expenditures, develop artificial intelligence teams and build a huge data center. Facebook Publisher.
Zuckerberg is displayed on a Facebook logo display screen.
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The White House did not respond to a request for comment. In the Rogan podcast and other places, Zuckerberg said that the changes facing dead facts have been made to enhance freedom of expression by users and reduce moderate content errors. The company refused to comment more.
Trump’s disagreement is not without risks. Some advertisers may link the possibility of their commercial signs as well as false or abusive content or deal with a company known to reject accuracy and safety online.
But with more than 3 billion people who use one of its applications daily, none of any success in the giant ads of the social media company is small, analysts say.
“They are ready to take some of these risks through their basic work because they suffer from Facebook and Instagram from basic platforms for advertisers,” said Yasmine Enberg, Vice President and Eyeer -President of Emarkter who covers social media.
Trump and Zuckerberg have been rotating each other for years.
In 2016, before Trump’s first presidency, Zuckerberg made a high manufacture in Trump, which called for the construction of a wall between the borders of US Mexico.
“I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and cleaning the people who describe them as others.”
Trump then won the presidency, as he was surprising technology leaders who supported his democratic competitors, Hillary Clinton. In an attempt to dissolve the lukewarm relations with the politician, then Sherrill Sandberg, Musk, Bezos, CEO of Apple Tim Cook and other prominent executives at a meeting that was widely published in the Trump Tower after his victory.
This freshness did not last for a long time, as Trump tried to ban travelers from Muslim countries mostly and launched a campaign against immigrants in the country illegally. Zuckerberg, who co -founded a political working group focused on immigration called FWD.us, Social media In 2017 to exchange his concerns, saying that “millions of not documented people who do not pose a threat will live in fear of deportation.”
That year, Zuckerberg toured the United States, which raised rumors that he wanted to run for the presidency.
Facebook, under pressure to do more to combat lies online, but insisting not to be the “Judgment Courts”, launched the fact -examination program in 2016. While Facebook tried to limit the spread of wrong information, Trump Social media has repeatedly accused of “completely discrimination against republican/conservative voices.”
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, the left, Larry Beige, meets the Optletit, and the director of operations, Sherrill Sandberg with Vice President -elect Mike Pines and President -elect Donald Trump in Trump Tower on December 14, 2016.
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Tensions erupted again FacebookYouTube and Twitter Republican commented from their platform US Capitol.
Zuckerberg said in a mail.
That year, Zuckerberg also registered democratically after the party’s preference was not determined, according to the Santa Clara province recorder. Description of the technology pole itself as the name “The Economy of Knowledge” Each Republicans and Democrats donated data from OpenSecrets offer.
After a subsidy for Facebook, Trump filed a lawsuit against social networks and its creation – social truth – as he referred to Zuckerberg, billionaire several times, as “Zuckerbox” and accused the business leader of interfering in the elections.
Trump said in his book “Save America” for the year 2024, “He will spend the rest of his life in prison” if he does “anything illegal” to influence the 2024 presidential elections.
A preliminary mark came to correct the next session of Meta when Trump was granted by a bullet in an assassination attempt during the campaign speech. Zuckerberg said Bloomberg In July, Trump’s vision was pumping his fist in the air with a challenge because the blood was on his face “Badas” and “as an American, it is difficult not to be emotional about that spirit and that battle.”
Zuckerberg Biden or Trump did not support the president.
After Trump’s victory, 40 -year -old billionaire announced in January video You will finish that Meta is a program to verify third -party facts with publishers. Instead, the company will use an approach adopted by X, Twitter previously, as users volunteer to write “community notes” in misleading posts.
Trump’s speech from Trump and his supporters echoed, Zuckerberg said that there is “a lot of censorship”, and he wants to work with the president “to respond to governments all over the world that follow American companies and pressure more censorship.”
He said in the video: “It was the fact that the auditors were very political confused and destroyed more confidence than they created, especially in the United States,” he said in the video.
Paying fact -examining facts in Meta against allegations of bias.
“We are verifying all parties, regardless of where it comes as a political spectrum. We are about the facts, not about politics,” said Alan Duke, co -founder and editor -in -chief of stories that examine the facts.
Meta has also made other changes, saying that the tape to remove content from its locations would be much higher than before. She changed her policy against her hateful behavior “to allow allegations of mental illness or anomalies when she is based on sex or sexual tendency”, criticizing the call groups of the decision.
Meta is also looking to reintegrate its company from Delaware to Texas and other states that may have more convenient legal landscapes, Wall Street Magazine It was mentioned on Friday. A Meta spokesman refused to confirm the report, but he pointed out: “There are no plans to transfer the company’s headquarters to the company from California.”
The changes come with a financial height. In 2024, dead revenues amounted to 164.5 billion dollars, an increase of 22 % compared to 2023, the company said on Wednesday. The social media giant’s net entered last year with 59 % to 62.36 billion dollars. Its shares, which were closed on Friday, over $ 689, rose more than 76 % over the past 12 months.
During the company’s quarterly profit call, Zuckerberg Trump praised again.
He said: “We now have an American administration proud of our leading companies, which gives priority to American technology that will defend our values and interests abroad and I am optimistic about the progress and innovation that can open this.”