Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is said to have engaged Republican strategist Brian Baker and has adopted a Libertarian stance as part of an effort to transform his public persona. The news comes following Zuckerberg’s acknowledgment of Facebook’s partnership with the Biden Administration in censoring political adversaries.
He acknowledged past censorship, including the suppression of the New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured out teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Zuckerberg also expressed regret for not opposing government pressure more strongly.
“The government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he said.
The Meta CEO has become seemingly disenchanted with leftist politics, and appears to be distancing himself from Washington.
“His preference, according to more than a dozen friends, advisers and executives familiar with his thinking, has been to wash his hands of it all,” one report noted.
Zuckerberg’s shift is “reflective of a larger shift in Silicon Valley, where chief executives have grown frustrated with contentious social issues. Their response has largely been to back away from it,” the report added.
