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Silicon Valley’s Biden Beef & Zuckerberg’s Hired Gun

Notes on the latest tech industry gossip, fundraising, and political power plays.

Mark Zuckerberg
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Theodore Schleifer
December 21, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg’s political interests are, understandably, the subject of intense scrutiny. Liberals have long suspected that he is a hostage of the right, if not a Republican sympathizer, given the extensive aid that Facebook provided Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and Zuckerberg’s subsequent reluctance to boot him from the platform. Conservatives presume he is a hostage of his woke employees, if not a card-carrying progressive himself, given that he did eventually deplatform Trump.