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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Siva Vaidhyanathan

Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga

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‘Conspiracy theories about vaccines, the earth being flat and secret cabals who allegedly run the world have long thrived on Facebook.’ Photograph: Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images

Mark Zuckerberg seems to have gone full Maga. Just two weeks before Donald Trump assumes power over the world’s most powerful government, the CEO and founder of the most powerful collection of Internet companies has decided to capitalize on what is sure to be a large and fast retreat from accountability and regulatory curbs on corporate negligence.

Some might read Zuckerberg’s announcement on Tuesday that he will end the eight-year project to protect users from hatred, threats, harassment and violent imagery as an example of pandering to the president-elect’s own power or Elon Musk’s new role as regulatory consigliere to Trump.

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