Big tech continues to swing to the right politically. Facebook parent company Meta, replacing its global policy head, Nick Clegg with Republican Joel Kaplan.
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00:00Big Tech continues to swing to the right politically.
00:04Facebook parent company, Meta, replacing its global policy head, Nick Clegg, with Republican
00:10Joel Kaplan.
00:12Kaplan was the deputy chief of staff under former President George W. Bush, and he recently
00:17appeared with President-elect Trump at the New York Stock Exchange.
00:22The change comes just weeks before Trump returns to the Oval Office, and on the heels of news
00:28that Meta's Mark Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and would donate $1 million
00:34to the Trump Inauguration Fund.
00:37A dramatic turn from a few months ago, when Trump threatened to jail Zuckerberg for life
00:45if he meddled in the 2024 election.