The tides are changing. And there’s nothing the Left can do.
And now a Big tech CEO broke with Democrats to team up with Donald Trump.
One of billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s key executives recently revealed that the Meta CEO is eager to take on an “active role” in shaping technology policy under the Trump administration.
Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, made these remarks less than a week after Zuckerberg had dinner with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
Zuckerberg wants to be “an active participant in the debates that any administration needs to have about maintaining America’s leadership in the technological sphere,” Clegg told journalists, as reported by the Financial Times.
He emphasized that U.S. dominance in technology is “tremendously important given all the geostrategic uncertainties around the world, and particularly the pivotal role that AI [artificial intelligence] will play.”
In a rare admission, Clegg acknowledged that Meta “overdid it a bit” when it came to censoring posts about COVID.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has faced criticism over its handling of content moderation in recent years.
The Trump-Zuckerberg dynamic has been complicated. During Trump’s first term, he was banned from both Facebook and Instagram in January 2021. However, Meta reinstated Trump’s accounts just two years later, paving the way for his return to the platforms.
According to the Financial Times, “Clegg’s comments come as Silicon Valley leaders are jockeying to curry favor with Trump, who in the past has repeatedly clashed with what he considers a left-leaning constituency that has funded his opponents and censored him.”
Clegg, a former UK Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2015, transitioned to the U.S. after losing his parliamentary seat in 2017.
The New York Post reported that Zuckerberg’s meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago was arranged at the Meta CEO’s request to discuss “the incoming administration.”
A Meta spokesperson described the dinner as a crucial moment, saying, “It’s an important time for the future of American innovation.
Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming Administration.”
Incoming White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller praised Zuckerberg’s approach during an interview with Laura Ingraham on FOX News, stating:
“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a partnership in this change that we’re seeing all around America, all around the world, with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.”
Miller further added, “Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity.”
As of this week, Zuckerberg holds the title of the fourth-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $212 billion, according to Forbes.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk, tapped to co-chair Trump’s upcoming advisory commission, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), remains the world’s wealthiest individual with a staggering net worth of $333 billion.
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