Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga | Siva Vaidhyanathan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Now, with the ascension of Trump and the complete Republican control of all three branches of the US government, the continued domination of Facebook friends such as India prime minister Narendra Modi, and the likely rise to power of extremist forces in Germany, France and other European countries, Zuckerberg no longer fears public admonition or effective regulation anywhere but Brazil, which has, under the Lula regime, stood out among powerful nations in its willingness to hold US companies to account.
36% : Some might read Zuckerberg's announcement on Tuesday that he will end the eight-year project to protect users from hatred, threats, harassment and violent imagery as an example of pandering to the president-elect's own power or Elon Musk's new role as regulatory consigliere to Trump.
34% : Zuckerberg was slow to implement even imperfect content moderation systems in the wake of the clear role that Facebook played in the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
30% : Just two weeks before Donald Trump assumes power over the world's most powerful government, the CEO and founder of the most powerful collection of Internet companies has decided to capitalize on what is sure to be a large and fast retreat from accountability and regulatory curbs on corporate negligence.
27% : Zuckerberg is using Trump, not the other way around.
25% : Zuckerberg is reverting to his core beliefs because of opportunity, not aligning himself with Trump out of fear.
11% : Zuckerberg also understands that Trump, with Zuckerberg's old enemy Musk at his side, is likely to deploy excessive leverage and power to curb Brazil's efforts to stand up to Silicon Valley on behalf of its citizens.Going forward, as Zuckerberg and Meta appear to pander to Trump, we should remember that he believes his companies to be the solution, not the cause, of our global maladies.

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