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> Yesterday's stock market bounce after the election of Donald Trump has added billions to the pockets of the tech elite, although apparently Mark Zuckerberg fa
by techfeathers 2y ago
> Yesterday's stock market bounce after the election of Donald Trump has added billions to the pockets of the tech elite, although apparently Mark Zuckerberg failed to cash in.
I know Mark is trying to play nice but I just don't see a world where Meta gets along with this administration, Maybe if they can stay out of the news, but liberal movements better not go viral on instagram/threads or he's screwed. I think Mark is trying to be more firm about a libertarian approach to governance, and the administration is too fundamentally socially conservative, and I imagine it will be painful, because facebook is likely the size it is because of it's hands off approach. Any attempt to regulate Meta could probably dramatically impact it's userbase.
- Terr_ 2y agoI think it'll boil down to: "If you're really my friend, then what gift do you have for me today?" Suitcases of bribe-cash aside, Zuckerberg/Meta will have a hard time balancing regular gifts with not alienating portions of the user-base.
- Liquix 2y agoThe FB userbase is thoroughly alienated. Same thing is happening to the site formerly known as twitter. Same thing will happen to IG in the next five years. You can't make red line go up every quarter without showing more ads, taking more deals, promoting paid posts, etc and each change drives more users off the site. No one below a certain age uses FB anymore except to keep in touch
- Terr_ 2y agoI mean politically alienated, not just abused in a generically enshittified bipartisan fashion.