Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasons
Silicon Valley companies including Meta have decided to embrace MAGA politics, some for “rather more self-interested” reasons, the former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.
Clegg, who spent nearly seven years at Meta as the head of global affairs, told The Rest is Money podcast that it felt like “a very good time for me to move on” when he left the company in March 2025, three months into the second Trump administration.
Executives who had previously shunned politics pivoted right; the products themselves “changed utterly: from being human-centric to being much more about content, often synthetic content, algorithmically recommended to you”, Clegg said.
Billionaires care ONLY about themselves, not even their own families, just themselves. And, in that regard, they care mostly about accumulating more power (money). You might think, ‘if it’s power they want, why don’t more of them run for political office?’ Because, the politicians work for the billionaires, also, billionaires want power without responsibility.
No one should be surprised Billionaires support the far right.