“Zuckerberg calls on Trump to stop the EU from fining American tech companies Mark Zuckerberg said that the new US government should stop the EU from fining American tech companies. Meta also announced the end of its fact-checking program and DEI initiative.”, — write on: unn.ua
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“I think it’s a strategic advantage for the United States that we have many of the strongest companies in the world, and I think that should be part of the U.S. strategy going forward to protect that,” Zuckerberg said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. Experience.
“And that’s one of the things I’m optimistic about President Trump,” he added.
The US president-elect appeared on the same program ahead of the November US presidential election and cited Rogan’s endorsement as a factor in his voter support. “I think he just wants America to win,” Zuckerberg said of Trump.
Zuckerberg complained that the EU has forced US tech companies operating in Europe to pay “more than $30 billion” in fines for breaking the law over the past two decades. In November last year, the Meta conglomerate, which is owned by the technology director and operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other social networks and communication platforms, was fined 797 million euros for violating EU antitrust rules by imposing unfair trading conditions on advertising service providers.
Zuckerberg argued that the European Commission’s enforcement of competition rules was “almost like a tariff” on US tech companies and said outgoing US President Joe Biden’s administration had failed to deal with the situation.
“If some other country was interfering in another industry that we care about, the U.S. government would probably find a way to put pressure on them, but I think what happened here is actually the complete opposite,” he said. “The U.S. government led such attacks on companies that then simply made it so that the EU is basically in all these other places, it’s just free to just focus on all the American companies and do whatever it wants.”
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Zuckerberg’s appearance on Rogan’s podcast came just days after he announced that Meta would end its third-party fact-checking program and move to a so-called public notes model. The move was widely interpreted as an attempt by Zuckerberg to curry favor with the new Trump administration, which has long denounced the moderation policy as left-leaning censorship.
Acknowledging the changing “legal and policy landscape”, Meta also said on Friday it would end its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes.