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Trump, Musk Appear to Speak From Hacked Crosswalks

In 3 California cities, someone is clearly having fun at the expense of the billionaires

(Newser) - Officials in three California cities are trying to work out how voices mocking President Trump, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg were added to crosswalks. The crosswalks appear to have been hacked with the sole purpose of mocking the billionaires with AI-generated voices, per Business Insider . The audio message, "Walk...

Zuckerberg Testifies After Both Sides Signal Strategy

Meta contends it has competition, FTC says it effectively doesn't in the personal social networking market

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg led off the antitrust trial Monday that could force him to break up Meta, facing the task of convincing a federal court that the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not make his $1.4 trillion company a social media monopoly. The Meta CEO was the first person...

Meta's Empire Could Crumble in FTC Showdown
New Court Fight
Has Huge Stakes
for Zuckerberg
the rundown
Apr 14, 2025 9:45 AM CDT

New Court Fight Has Huge Stakes for Zuckerberg

Meta's antitrust trial begins Monday in Washington

(Newser) - The Federal Trade Commission is taking Meta to court. In a trial beginning Monday, the US government will argue that the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp broke competition laws in acquiring the latter two apps in 2012 and 2014, respectively. More:
  • The case: It began in December 2020 during
...

Jesse Eisenberg Wants to Cut His Link to Zuckerberg

Social Network actor played Meta CEO but doesn't want to be 'associated with somebody like that'

(Newser) - Jesse Eisenberg may have played Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg on the big screen in 2010's The Social Network, but any link beyond that isn't something Eisenberg is keen on. "I haven't been following [Zuckerberg's] life trajectory, partly because I don't want to think of...

Zuckerberg Tells Meta Employees to 'Buckle Up'

He defends working with Trump administration in all-hands employee meeting

(Newser) - "We try to be really open and then everything I say leaks. It sucks," Mark Zuckerberg said at an all-hands Meta meeting Thursday, according to details leaked to multiple outlets. According to a recording obtained by the Washington Post , the Meta CEO said the company's values haven'...

Meta Will Pay $25M to Settle Trump Lawsuit

President sued after Facebook, Instagram accounts were suspended in 2021

(Newser) - Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to President Trump to settle a lawsuit he filed in response to being kicked off the company's platforms the day after the Capitol riot. The company confirmed the settlement to the Wall Street Journal . Sources tell the AP that the settlement includes...

Dave Chappelle Had a Request for Trump in SNL Monologue

'Do better next time,' comedian urges

(Newser) - Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend, and offered up a 17-minute monologue being called controversial by multiple outlets. It was also SNL's longest monologue ever, NBC News reports. Among the topics he covered:
  • Trump: Toward the end of his monologue, Chappelle addressed the president-elect directly, the
...

Zuckerberg Just Took on Another Inaugural Role

Meta founder will co-host inaugural reception with Miriam Adelson, sports team owners

(Newser) - Meta founder, electric hydrofoil surfer , and now ... inaugural party host? It's already been announced that Mark Zuckerberg, whose company donated $1 million to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund, will be joining fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos on the platform at the president-elect's inauguration Monday. Zuck "...

Meta Firing Its 5% 'Lowest Performers'
Meta Is Laying Off Thousands
Jan 15, 2025 7:45 AM CST

Meta Is Laying Off Thousands

3.6K employees representing the 'lowest performers' will be out

(Newser) - Meta plans to fire thousands of workers who represent the 5% "lowest performers" across its 72,000-strong global workforce. Anticipating an "intense year," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he wants "the best people on our teams" and opted to "move out low-performers faster" than the...

World's 3 Richest Men Will Sit Together at Inauguration

Insider says Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg will be on platform with Trump's Cabinet nominees

(Newser) - The people in the top three spots on Forbes' billionaire list —Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg—will have prime seats at President-elect Trump's inauguration next week. NBC News , citing "an official involved with the planning of the event," reports that the three tech billionaires...

What Meta's Big Policy Change Might Mean
Meta's
Fact-Checker
Shift Has Big
Implications
the rundown
Jan 8, 2025 8:59 AM CST

Meta's Fact-Checker Shift Has Big Implications

And they might be most pronounced outside the US

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Meta was doing away with fact-checkers on Facebook, a sweeping policy shift with huge implications. A look at reaction from around the political spectrum:
  • About time: The conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal calls Zuckerberg's message a "mea culpa for the
...

Zuckerberg Wore a $900K Watch to Meta Announcement

He was sporting a Greubel Forsey 'Hand Made 1' in recent video announcement

(Newser) - As he announced Meta's decision to do away with third-party fact-checking on Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg was not exactly giving off a "one of us" vibe: The CEO was wearing a Swiss watch worth nearly a million bucks. As Bloomberg explains, the "extremely rare" Greubel Forsey "Hand...

Zuckerberg Announces Major Policy Shift on Posts
Zuckerberg
Announces
Major Policy
Shift on Posts
the rundown
Jan 7, 2025 11:15 AM CST

Zuckerberg Announces Major Policy Shift on Posts

Facebook scrapping fact-checkers, will use a 'Community Notes' model like one on X platform

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a major change on Tuesday that puts Facebook and other companies under the Meta umbrella more in sync with the incoming Trump administration. Details:
  • Fact-checkers: Meta is scrapping its third-party fact-checking system on posts and will shift to a "Community Notes" format similar to the one
...

UFC CEO Dana White Now on the Board of Meta

As the company appears to shift a bit to the right, per CNN

(Newser) - Trump ally and Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White can now also be described as a member of Meta's board of directors. The board of the Facebook and Instagram parent company elected him and two others, expanding the number of directors from 10 to 13, NPR reports. Meta...

Trump's Inauguration Just Got a Big Donor

In a break with tradition, Meta donates $1M to president-elect's inaugural fund

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his campaign to woo the president-elect, with Meta donating $1 million to Donald Trump's inaugural fund. Meta confirmed the donation to news outlets Wednesday, with the Wall Street Journal reporting it's part of "efforts to court the incoming administration." Trump has called...

Zuckerberg Dines With Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Zuckerberg Has
Dinner With Trump
Nov 28, 2024 11:25 AM CST

Zuckerberg Has Dinner With Trump

Meeting comes years after Trump was banned from Facebook

(Newser) - Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, bringing together the Facebook founder and the former president who was once banned from that social network. Insiders tell the New York Times that the meeting was initiated by Zuckerberg amid worries...

Zuckerberg Releases Acoustic Cover of Rap Song

He joined forces with T-Pain to release 'Get Low' as anniversary gift to wife

(Newser) - If you've ever wanted to hear the founder of Facebook sing an acoustic version of a raunchy rap song, then Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain have a treat for you. In what NBC News calls "one of the most unforeseen songs of the year," the duo have joined...

The World's Richest Had a Very Good Post-Election Day

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison saw windfalls in the billions after Trump was elected

(Newser) - Wednesday was a very good day for Donald Trump, who learned in its wee hours that he had secured himself a second term in the White House, but it was also a happy day for planet Earth's richest dudes as the stock market surged . Quartz takes a look around...

Meta Shuts Down Student Who Tracks Jets
Plane-Tracking Student
Just Got 'Zucked'
in case you missed it
Oct 27, 2024 7:10 AM CDT

Plane-Tracking Student Just Got 'Zucked'

Jack Sweeney, who's annoyed stars by keeping tabs on their jets, says Meta suspended accounts

(Newser) - Elon Musk and Taylor Swift have long been irked by the antics of Jack Sweeney, the college student who tracks the jets of celebrities (including Musk, Swift, Kim Kardashian, Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump, among others) and posts their locations online. Now, Meta has jumped into the fray, according...

Zuckerberg Steals a Title From Jeff Bezos

Facebook founder is now the world's second-richest person after Elon Musk

(Newser) - Elon Musk leads the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with at least $50 billion more than those behind him. That means that, for now, the title of world's richest person is out of grasp for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Second place, however, is all his. For the first time, the Facebook...

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