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How Zuckerberg, in obeisance to his overlord, secretly conspired to make Meta even more MAGA-friendly

How Zuckerberg, in obeisance to his overlord, secretly conspired to make Meta even more MAGA-friendly

The New York Times reports: Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small. Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving. Now he needed his employees to turn those changes into policy. Over the next few weeks, Mr. Zuckerberg…

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Zuckerberg says most companies need more ‘masculine energy’

Zuckerberg says most companies need more ‘masculine energy’

Who's actually surprised that this little asshole was basically just a fascist incel hiding in plain sight? not me. Remember that Facebook was originally just a website created by a sexually frustrated Zuckerberg to rate the bangability levels of female students at his college. [image or embed] — ❄️Hugo the pink snow cat❄️ (@hugothepinkcat.bsky.social) January 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM Bloomberg News reports: Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine…

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Zuckerberg hopes Trump will enable Meta to violate antitrust laws

Zuckerberg hopes Trump will enable Meta to violate antitrust laws

Politico reports: The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for breaching antitrust rules and committing other violations, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said late Friday. “I think it’s a strategic advantage for the United States that we have a lot of the strongest companies in the world, and I think it should be part of the U.S. strategy going forward to defend that,” Zuckerberg said during an appearance…

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Christian nationalism is incompatible with American democracy, says author

Christian nationalism is incompatible with American democracy, says author

CNN reports: There’s an image that captures the threat posed by the White Christian nationalist movement — and how it could become even more dangerous over the next four years. Taken during the Jan. 6 insurrection, the photo shows a solitary White man, his head pressed in prayer against a massive wooden cross, facing the domed US Capitol building. An American flag stands like a sentinel on a flagpole beside the Capitol under an ominously gray sky. The photograph depicts a foot soldier in an insurgent religious movement…

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How Mark Zuckerberg threatens democracy

How Mark Zuckerberg threatens democracy

Yaёl Eisenstat writes: Mark Zuckerberg announced a spate of changes in Meta’s approach to speech and moderation issues this week, part of his longstanding effort to dominate the information landscape while resisting responsibility for his company’s contributions to political violence, extremism, and other antidemocratic activities in the United States and around the world. Let’s talk about the most serious implications. Two of the key changes are that Meta will end fact-checking and roll back content moderation. According to reporting from…

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Trump’s threats against Canada, Greenland, and Panama, vis-à-vis the Rio Treaty security pact

Trump’s threats against Canada, Greenland, and Panama, vis-à-vis the Rio Treaty security pact

Francisco Lobo writes: President-elect Donald Trump’s recent statements about his administration’s foreign policy toward Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal has given rise to international consternation. In particular, his statements about annexing Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal – the first in his words by the “use of economic force,” the remaining two with the possibility of military force explicitly on the table– have been sufficiently worrisome to inspire foreign leaders to respond. What’s been missing from the commentary and analysis is a regional treaty,…

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Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face

Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face

Elizabeth Lopatto writes: I’ll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out: Mark Zuckerberg’s interview on The Joe Rogan Experience is full of lies. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, sets the tone at the very beginning: “I think at some level you only start one of these companies if you believe in giving people a voice, right?” Unfortunately I wasn’t born yesterday, and I…

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Trump Organization hires top white collar defense lawyer to handle conflicts of interest

Trump Organization hires top white collar defense lawyer to handle conflicts of interest

The Associated Press reports: The Trump family business released a voluntary ethics agreement Friday that allows it to strike deals with private foreign companies, a move that could help outside actors try to buy influence with the new administration. The so-called ethics white paper bars the Trump Organization from striking deals directly with foreign governments, but allows ones with private companies abroad, a significant departure from President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. An ethics pact that Trump signed eight years ago…

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Rust Belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

Rust Belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

The Observer reports: The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible. The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and…

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Russia’s crisis of depopulation is at the heart of Putin’s paranoia

Russia’s crisis of depopulation is at the heart of Putin’s paranoia

Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes write: We live in a strange time marked by widespread and ongoing depopulation. The entire world is grappling with a crisis of childlessness. By 2015, the global fertility rate had dropped to half of what it was in 1965, and most people now lives in societies with fertility rates below replacement levels. Populations are shrinking across rich and poor nations, secular and religious societies, democracies and autocracies alike. As the eminent American demographer Nicholas Eberstadt…

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The key to a healthy gut microbiome is a healthy diet

The key to a healthy gut microbiome is a healthy diet

Università di Trento: A varied diet rich in vegetables is known to be healthy for one’s well-being. Excessive consumption of meat, especially red meat, can lead to chronic and cardiovascular diseases. That is also because what we eat shapes the gut microbiome. At the same time, excluding certain foods, such as dairy or animal products, is not necessarily a general solution to achieve microbial balance. But can we find out which food products determine differences in the gut microbiome? Starting…

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Will Trump just let California burn?

Will Trump just let California burn?

Ed Kilgore writes: Right now, as Los Angeles deals with a horrendous wildfire emergency, Donald Trump is just an extremely unhelpful critic of the people trying to save lives and homes. The torrent of abuse and misinformation he is spewing is unfortunate but not calamitous. But in ten days he will become once again the president of the United States, and his intensely politicized approach to natural disasters, particularly in blue states like California, will become highly relevant to real-life…

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How a phone call drew Alito into a Trump loyalty test

How a phone call drew Alito into a Trump loyalty test

The New York Times reports: Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received a call on his cellphone Tuesday. It was President-elect Donald J. Trump, calling from Florida. Hours later, Mr. Trump’s legal team would ask Justice Alito and his eight colleagues on the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York for falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a pornographic film actress before the 2016 election. And the next day, the existence of the call would…

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Musk and Ramaswamy’s DOGE is dispatching hired guns across U.S. government

Musk and Ramaswamy’s DOGE is dispatching hired guns across U.S. government

The Washington Post reports: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are sending representatives to agencies across the federal government, four people familiar with the matter said, to begin preliminary interviews that will shape the tech executives’ enormous ambitions to tame Washington’s sprawling bureaucracy. In recent days, aides with the nongovernmental “Department of Government Efficiency” tied to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have spoken with staffers at more than a dozen federal agencies, said the people, who spoke on the condition of…

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