One after the other, the big bosses of American tech are lining up behind Donald Trump and the man who has, de facto, become his main political collaborator, the libertarian Elon Musk, boss of Telsa, SpaceX and the social network X.
Latest: Mark Zuckerberg. Less than two weeks before the Republican’s inauguration for a second term, the founder of Meta – a company valued at 1,600 billion dollars (1,500 billion euros) on the stock market, with its applications Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp – announced , Tuesday January 7, a major shift in his group towards the Trump galaxy. Officially in the name of freedom of expression. “The recent elections appear to be a cultural tipping point toward a new emphasis on freedom of expression,” he assures in a video.
-To do this, the entrepreneur announced the return of political topics on its platforms, which host 3.3 billion active users on the planet, and the elimination of “fact-checking”. “We have reached a point where there are too many errors and too much censorship. We will get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community ratings similar to explained Mark Zuckerberg, while the large platforms are the subject of mistrust from the Trumpist electorate.
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