Mark Zuckerberg famously co-founded the social media site Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms and is currently the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder of the tech giant. That makes him a mega-billionaire, all of which makes him very powerful, whether we like it or not.
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In fact, we on the conservative side have mostly not liked it all because his company and his resources were behind some of the most devious censorship efforts that we saw in the Big Tech era during the 2020 elections. His platforms actively suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, and his entities pumped “$400 million-plus that Zuckerberg spent to help finance local elections in a ‘carefully orchestrated attempt’ to influence the 2020 vote.”
Big Tech has been no friend to outlets like RedState, and companies like Google and Facebook routinely demonetize or throttle us when we say something they don’t like.
It comes as somewhat of a surprise, therefore, that the tech overlord bent the knee and visited President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago this past week:
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, just months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt.
Zuckerberg’s visit to Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, club was confirmed by Trump adviser Stephen Miller during an episode of “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News Channel.
“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we’re seeing all around America, all around the world with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading,” Miller said to guest host Brian Kilmeade.
“Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity.”
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It’s not the first time that Zuckerberg seemed to be indicating that he’s changing his tune: in July, after the oh-so-close assassination attempt against the then-candidate went down, Zuckerberg praised the former and future president:
“On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy,” he added.
The Meta CEO even admitted that his company had made a mistake by “mislabeling” a photo of the now iconic assassination attempt:
Zuckerberg’s visit to Mar-a-Lago is not the Facebook founder’s first interaction with the Republican leader. In August, Trump told FOX Business host Maria Bartiromo that Zuckerberg called him to apologize over an error.
“So, Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me two times. He called me after the event and he said that was really amazing,” Trump said during an Aug. 1 “Mornings with Maria” interview on FOX Business. “It was really brave.”
“And he actually announced that he’s not going to support a Democrat because he can’t because he respected me for what I did that day,” the Republican continued. “I think what I did… to me, was a normal response.”
Trump added that Zuckerberg apologized after Facebook mislabeled a photo of him that went viral.
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While I think this is welcome news, and we can hope that Zuck has had an actual change of heart, I’m not stupid enough to suddenly be a Zuckerberg enthusiast. He has shown too many times in the past that he is willing to censor conservatives and use his significant powers to influence elections toward the Democrat side. He is a known opportunist, and he sees the writing on the wall—namely that the progressive movement is in failure mode at this point in history, and the Trump movement is ascendant.
Maybe a leopard can change its spots. Maybe Facebook/Meta will stop censoring and throttling and manipulating data, but this one visit to Mar-a-Lago is not enough to convince me. Trump has so far been magnanimous with his very recent enemies—see the utter reconciliation (humiliation) of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski—but it remains to be seen if Zuckerberg is just making a desperate play to avoid consequences for his past actions or if he’s is really committed to changing the toxic, censorious environment which he helped create.
Color me skeptical.
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We’ll continue to fight the efforts of Big Tech to censor us, regardless of whether Zuckerberg has seen the light or is just pandering.
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