{"id":19769,"date":"2025-01-10T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19769"},"modified":"2025-01-10T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:35:34","slug":"inside-mark-zuckerbergs-sprint-to-remake-meta-for-the-trump-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19769","title":{"rendered":"Inside Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta\u2019s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small.<\/p>\n

Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company\u2019s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump<\/a> at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving. Now he needed his employees to turn those changes into policy.<\/p>\n

Over the next few weeks, Mr. Zuckerberg and his handpicked team discussed how to do that in Zoom meetings, conference calls and late-night group chats. Some subordinates stole away from family dinners and holiday gatherings to work, while Mr. Zuckerberg weighed in between trips to his homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and the island of Kauai.<\/p>\n

By New Year\u2019s Day, Mr. Zuckerberg was ready to go public with the changes, according to four current and former Meta employees and advisers with knowledge of the events, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the confidential discussions.<\/p>\n

The entire process was highly unusual. Meta typically alters policies that govern its apps \u2014 which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads \u2014 by inviting employees, civic leaders and others to weigh in. Any shifts generally take months. But Mr. Zuckerberg turned this latest effort into a closely held six-week sprint, blindsiding even employees on his policy and integrity teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Tuesday, most of Meta\u2019s 72,000 employees learned of Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s plans along with the rest of the world. The Silicon Valley giant said it was overhauling speech on its apps<\/a> by loosening restrictions on how people can talk about contentious social issues such as immigration, gender and sexuality<\/a>. It killed its fact-checking program that had been aimed at curbing misinformation and said it would instead rely on users to police falsehoods<\/a>. And it said it would insert more political content into people\u2019s feeds after previously de-emphasizing that very material<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the days since, the moves \u2014 which have sweeping implications for what people will see online \u2014 have drawn applause from Mr. Trump and conservatives, derision from fact-checking groups and misinformation researchers and concerns from L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups that fear the changes will lead to more people getting harassed online and offline.<\/p>\n

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After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta\u2019s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small.Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company\u2019s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving. Now he needed his employees to turn those changes into policy.Over the next few weeks, Mr. Zuckerberg and his handpicked team discussed how to do that in Zoom meetings, conference calls and late-night group chats. Some subordinates stole away from family dinners and holiday gatherings to work, while Mr. Zuckerberg weighed in between trips to his homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and the island of Kauai.By New Year\u2019s Day, Mr. Zuckerberg was ready to go public with the changes, according to four current and former Meta employees and advisers with knowledge of the events, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the confidential discussions.The entire process was highly unusual. Meta typically alters policies that govern its apps \u2014 which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads \u2014 by inviting employees, civic leaders and others to weigh in. Any shifts generally take months. But Mr. Zuckerberg turned this latest effort into a closely held six-week sprint, blindsiding even employees on his policy and integrity teams.On Tuesday, most of Meta\u2019s 72,000 employees learned of Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s plans along with the rest of the world. The Silicon Valley giant said it was overhauling speech on its apps by loosening restrictions on how people can talk about contentious social issues such as immigration, gender and sexuality. It killed its fact-checking program that had been aimed at curbing misinformation and said it would instead rely on users to police falsehoods. And it said it would insert more political content into people\u2019s feeds after previously de-emphasizing that very material.In the days since, the moves \u2014 which have sweeping implications for what people will see online \u2014 have drawn applause from Mr. Trump and conservatives, derision from fact-checking groups and misinformation researchers and concerns from L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups that fear the changes will lead to more people getting harassed online and offline.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19771,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19772,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769\/revisions\/19772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}