Mark Zuckerberg Sells His Employees on ‘Partnership’ With Trump Admin

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company’s controversial policy changes while juicing up employees for what he says will be a “big year” for the social media giant. “I want to be clear, after the last several years, we now have an opportunity to have a productive partnership with the United States government,” Zuckerberg said at one of the company’s famous all-hands meetings on Thursday. “We’re going to take that.

” The hourlong meeting with more than 70,000 employees was behind closed doors, but recordings of the Facebook founder’s remarks were quickly leaked and sent to multiple outlets, including Business Insider , The New York Times , and The Verge . Meta did not return a request for comment from the Daily Beast. “I think it’s the right thing to do because there are several areas, even if we don’t agree on everything, where we have common cause for things that are going to make it so that we can serve our community better, and we can advance the interests of our country together,” Zuckerberg told his employees on Thursday.



Zuckerberg’s remarks echoed his statements only one day earlier on the company’s quarterly earnings call. “This is also going to be a big year for redefining our relationship with governments,” the Meta CEO told investors. “We now have a U.

S. administration that is proud of our leading companies, prioritizes American technology winning and that will defend our values and interests abroad and I am optimistic about the progress and innovation that this can unlock.” Meta has undergone radical shifts in policy since President Donald Trump’s electoral victory in November—revising its hateful conduct policy , getting rid of its fact checking program , and even adding UFC CEO and longtime Trump ally Dana White to the company’s board of directors.

Meta also eliminated its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs—a move Zuckerberg defended to employees on Thursday. The 40-year-old tech billionaire said the company had a “good track record” on diversity and still believes it to be a “strength,” but said the company needed to adjust to a “rapidly changing policy and regulatory landscape that increasingly views any policy that might advantage any one group of people over another as something that is unlawful.”.