Mark Zuckerberg is doing everything he can to appease Trump by turning Facebook into a MAGA sandbox. Why?
First of all, as I’ve noted before, content moderation is difficult and expensive. Trump gives him an excuse to do something he probably wanted to do anyway. Second, Meta has been clashing with the EU over a variety of issues, including moderation; maybe Zuckerberg can persuade Trump to treat Facebook as a national tech champion that should be protected against foreign overregulation through threats of sanctions and tariffs. That doesn’t seem implausible to me.
In all likelihood, Zuckerberg’s DEI and moderation issues weren’t evidence of his essential liberalism; they were a response to demands made by his workforce and his customers. How will they react to the counterrevolution? TBD.