Joel Kaplan
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And with Trump in office, Facebook is much more sensitive to how any changes, even neutral nonpartisan changes like common ground, might be perceived by politicians or media persona who have a big megaphone. and can generate a political crisis and headache for Facebook.
And with Trump in office, Facebook is much more sensitive to how any changes, even neutral nonpartisan changes like common ground, might be perceived by politicians or media persona who have a big megaphone. and can generate a political crisis and headache for Facebook.
And with Trump in office, Facebook is much more sensitive to how any changes, even neutral nonpartisan changes like common ground, might be perceived by politicians or media persona who have a big megaphone. and can generate a political crisis and headache for Facebook.
So in the end, a few of the tweaks of Common Ground got through, but in the end, almost all of Common Ground was scrapped and put on the shelf and never saw the light of day.
So in the end, a few of the tweaks of Common Ground got through, but in the end, almost all of Common Ground was scrapped and put on the shelf and never saw the light of day.
So in the end, a few of the tweaks of Common Ground got through, but in the end, almost all of Common Ground was scrapped and put on the shelf and never saw the light of day.
So to me, Kaplan's professional life. And his corporate values at Facebook suggest to me that there's almost no limit to the necessities and prerogatives of survival that Kaplan can't find a way to accommodate. I guess a different way of putting this would be Zuckerberg's donating...
So to me, Kaplan's professional life. And his corporate values at Facebook suggest to me that there's almost no limit to the necessities and prerogatives of survival that Kaplan can't find a way to accommodate. I guess a different way of putting this would be Zuckerberg's donating...
So to me, Kaplan's professional life. And his corporate values at Facebook suggest to me that there's almost no limit to the necessities and prerogatives of survival that Kaplan can't find a way to accommodate. I guess a different way of putting this would be Zuckerberg's donating...
a million dollars to the inaugural committee or going to Mar-a-Lago or bringing an MMA executive onto the corporate board. Those are really obvious, jarring ways that we can see Zuckerberg more than almost any other, not only tech company, but really any other major corporation in the United States. Facebook has managed to stand out in subjecting itself to the coming Trump wave.
a million dollars to the inaugural committee or going to Mar-a-Lago or bringing an MMA executive onto the corporate board. Those are really obvious, jarring ways that we can see Zuckerberg more than almost any other, not only tech company, but really any other major corporation in the United States. Facebook has managed to stand out in subjecting itself to the coming Trump wave.
a million dollars to the inaugural committee or going to Mar-a-Lago or bringing an MMA executive onto the corporate board. Those are really obvious, jarring ways that we can see Zuckerberg more than almost any other, not only tech company, but really any other major corporation in the United States. Facebook has managed to stand out in subjecting itself to the coming Trump wave.
And Kaplan's appointment to lead global policy is, to me, actually the ur-example of all of those things. Kaplan's singular achievement, I think, of the last eight years is finding a way to accommodate the brash ugliness of MAGA Washington and MAGA conservatism with the elite burnish and
And Kaplan's appointment to lead global policy is, to me, actually the ur-example of all of those things. Kaplan's singular achievement, I think, of the last eight years is finding a way to accommodate the brash ugliness of MAGA Washington and MAGA conservatism with the elite burnish and
And Kaplan's appointment to lead global policy is, to me, actually the ur-example of all of those things. Kaplan's singular achievement, I think, of the last eight years is finding a way to accommodate the brash ugliness of MAGA Washington and MAGA conservatism with the elite burnish and
you know, professionalized corporate values of Facebook and the corporate world, you know, the next four years of Trump is going to be what Kaplan does best, which is just an era of serious and profound accommodation of Facebook or by Facebook of Trump. You know, if you can think of
you know, professionalized corporate values of Facebook and the corporate world, you know, the next four years of Trump is going to be what Kaplan does best, which is just an era of serious and profound accommodation of Facebook or by Facebook of Trump. You know, if you can think of
you know, professionalized corporate values of Facebook and the corporate world, you know, the next four years of Trump is going to be what Kaplan does best, which is just an era of serious and profound accommodation of Facebook or by Facebook of Trump. You know, if you can think of
all the unsavory ways that an empowered Trump might want to use Facebook for illegitimate ends, Kaplan is going to be the person in charge of figuring out a way to accommodate Trump and MAGA conservatism as far as it can go and pushing the breaking point further and further before it becomes untenable for Facebook.
all the unsavory ways that an empowered Trump might want to use Facebook for illegitimate ends, Kaplan is going to be the person in charge of figuring out a way to accommodate Trump and MAGA conservatism as far as it can go and pushing the breaking point further and further before it becomes untenable for Facebook.