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Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg

What does Mark Zuckerberg believe? What does he actually care about? How could a man who marched in a gay pride parade, who advocated for increased immigration to the United States, who employed a high-profile Democrat and feminist as his second-in-command, sit and consume with Donald Trump?

Why, at a minute of worldwide and nationwide crisis, when more than 100,000 Americans have passed away of a virus that could have been contained by a competent federal government, a quarter of Americans remain in risk of being forced out or tossed into hardship, and countless Americans are facing off against violent police in the streets of cities and towns of all sizes, does Zuckerberg get on the phone with Trump for a nice chat?

Like other billionaires, Zuckerberg has the cash, power, and influence to take a stand versus such malfeasance and malevolence. With 3 global platforms– Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp– efficient in structuring the cultural and intellectual experience of billions around the world, Zuckerberg selects to do the opposite. He chooses to reinforce Trump and other authoritarians, despite all the harm they do to the world.

Zuckerberg understood in 2016 that Trump was a racist. He knew that Trump boasted of sexually attacking females. Zuckerberg permitted Facebook employees to assistance Trump use Facebook more efficiently, definitely contributing to the electoral college win.

How could an individual who appears so cosmopolitan let his business successfully support the campaigns of authoritarian nationalists like Narendra Modi in India or Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines? Why does he let them utilize his platforms to scare critics, journalists, and scholars?

Over the past two weeks these questions have actually taken on a brand-new seriousness as Facebook employees have for the first time publicly voiced anger and disappointment with Zuckerberg’s decision to secure Trump’s require state violence against those who are opposing racist authorities violence. While Twitter took a modest stand versus Trump’s hyperbolic risks, Zuckerberg revealed that he sees the posts as different from those that threaten violence due to the fact that they were about the usage of “state force.” Seriously.

In a dripped staff call on Tuesday, Zuckerberg safeguarded his choice to upset Facebook staffers. “We basically concluded after the research study and after everything I’ve checked out and all the various folks that I’ve talked to that the referral is plainly to aggressive policing– perhaps excessive policing– but it has no history of being read as a pet whistle for vigilante supporters to take justice into their own hands,” Zuckerberg said of Trump’s posts that taunted protesters with, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

And after some civil rights leaders talked to Zuckerberg on Monday they left ” dissatisfied and shocked,” convinced that Zuckerberg does not– or declines to– understand basic problems like voter suppression and bigotry.

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Now, as the United States faces its greatest threat given that the Civil War, Zuckerberg caters the authoritarian in the White House.

You need to ask yourself why. “It has to do with the money” does not rather track. He would have all that cash regardless. Zuckerberg and Facebook are deeply ingrained in the global economy and class structure. He does not require Trump.

Trump has no direct or instant power to control Facebook or restrict its actions in the short-term. Perhaps Zuckerberg is hedging, assuming that Trump and the Republicans will go easier on him if they prevail in November. Zuckerberg already has bought the support of some powerful Democrats, so he does not have to work so difficult to keep them at bay.

So what does Zuckerberg actually believe? What does he truly desire for the world?

These are concerns that for several years have been bewildering those of us who blog about Facebook. After going through hundreds of speeches, letters, and Facebook posts by Zuckerberg throughout the research for my most current book, I thought I had him

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