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From Breitbart: Leftist kingpin Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now identifies as a libertarian that feels a sense of hostility to government regulation, as well as skepticism of initiatives that claim to advance so-called “social justice.”
Zuckerberg now considers his political views to be more libertarian or in line with “classical liberalism,” a position considered fiscally conservative but socially liberal, and regrets hiring employees who tried to push him further left via philanthropy, sources familiar with his thinking told the New York Times.
The sources added that Zuckerberg is also trying to repair his relationship with former President Donald Trump, speaking to him twice in one-on-one cordial phone calls over the summer.
First, Zuckerberg called Trump after the 45th president narrowly survived an assassination attempt on July 13 while speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
A few weeks later, Zuckerberg called Trump a second time to apologize after Meta erroneously took down iconic images of the assassination attempt, sources familiar with that conversation told the New York Times.
According to a report by the New York Times, Zuckerberg now regrets some of the actions he took politically in the past, and now wants to wash his hands of politics. The Times wrote:
As recently as June at the Allen and Company conference — the “summer camp for billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho — Mr. Zuckerberg complained to multiple people about the blowback to Meta that came from the more politically touchy aspects of his philanthropic efforts. And he regretted hiring employees at his philanthropy who tried to push him further to the left on some causes.
Mr. Zuckerberg is declining to engage with Washington except when necessary. In private, he has stopped supporting programs at his philanthropy that could be perceived as partisan, and he has tamped down employee activism at Meta, said these people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to do so or did not want to jeopardize their relationships with Mr. Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg has also recently admitted that the Biden administration pressured his company to censor speech:
Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg publicly expressed regret around some of his political activity in a letter to Congress. He said that in 2021, the Biden administration “pressured” Meta into censoring more Covid-19 content than Mr. Zuckerberg felt comfortable with. And he said he would not repeat the contributions he made in 2020 to support electoral infrastructure because the gifts made him appear not “neutral.”
And, according to the New York Times, Zuckerberg’s political viewpoints have slightly shifted:
Privately, Mr. Zuckerberg now considers his personal politics to be more like libertarianism or “classical liberalism,” according to people who have spoken to him recently. That includes a hostility to regulation that restricts business, an embrace of free markets and globalism and an openness to social-justice reforms — but only if it stops short of what he considers far-left progressivism.
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Mark Zuckerberg is Over It.
How a liberal, Obama-loving tech billionaire started talking to Trump (twice!), telling friends he regretted his own political work, and sometimes dissing his own philanthropy.
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