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.
That was always going to happen since Biden decided to let the coup go unpunished, and allowed every fed agency to continue to increasingly fail in their statutory duties not the least the Justice Department, and otherwise sucked so much he handed the world to these republicans.
I told you so.
Joe was a good guy, and in a better world would have made a good president. But his utter failure to hold Republicans responsible, and execute everyone involved with j6 has doomed our country. All the upcoming bloodshed could have been stopped if he did his fucking job.
Old people are worthless. NEVER put them in charge
I cannot agree that Joe was a good guy. He was a lifelong piece of fucking shit.