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Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasons
Silicon Valley companies including Meta have decided to embrace MAGA politics, some for “rather more self-interested” reasons, the former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.
Clegg, who spent nearly seven years at Meta as the head of global affairs, told The Rest is Money podcast that it felt like “a very good time for me to move on” when he left the company in March 2025, three months into the second Trump administration.
Executives who had previously shunned politics pivoted right; the products themselves “changed utterly: from being human-centric to being much more about content, often synthetic content, algorithmically recommended to you”, Clegg said.
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That was always going to happen since Biden decided to let the coup go unpunished, and allowed every fed agency to continue to increasingly fail in their statutory duties not the least the Justice Department, and otherwise sucked so much he handed the world to these republicans.
I told you so.
It’s worse than just Biden. The majority of the DNC stood by & allowed it to happen. Fuck them. We need more Mamdanis, candidates who are for the people & act like it
Joe was a good guy, and in a better world would have made a good president. But his utter failure to hold Republicans responsible, and execute everyone involved with j6 has doomed our country. All the upcoming bloodshed could have been stopped if he did his fucking job.
Old people are worthless. NEVER put them in charge
I cannot agree that Joe was a good guy. He was a lifelong piece of fucking shit.
Billionaires care ONLY about themselves, not even their own families, just themselves. And, in that regard, they care mostly about accumulating more power (money). You might think, ‘if it’s power they want, why don’t more of them run for political office?’ Because, the politicians work for the billionaires, also, billionaires want power without responsibility.
No one should be surprised Billionaires support the far right.
Yeah exactly. They just want to pull the puppet strings from the dark.
About a decade late on that one, bud.
A champion in stating the obvious.
People in power tend not to pivot right for the greater good.
Of course. Because the right wing philosophy is very egotistical. Me, me, me. You see that in everything. From glorifying billionaires that screwed everyone over to get there to things like “America first”.
The politicians claim to be right in the interest of their country but how do you trust someone who clearly puts their own interest first?
