What Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘masculine energy’ talk could mean for Meta’s future [Video]

As inauguration draws nearer in the U.S., Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been positioning his company for the second Trump era.

Four years ago, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riots, Meta booted Donald Trump off its platform. Now, it’s donating $1 million US to Trump’s inauguration, and Zuckerberg says the tech sector needs more “masculine energy” alongside a revival of a corporate culture “that celebrates the aggression.”

He made the comments on the The Joe Rogan Experience podcast amid massive structural and cultural changes at Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, including the removal of third-party fact-checking and changing guidelines to allow slurs against some vulnerable groups. 

His moves lend insight, media experts suggest, as to how the winds of political change could lead to more discord on social media — and limit diversity in the already largely homogenous tech sector. 

Celebrating aggression

One of the main talking points of Zuckerberg’s conversation was an idea that corporate workplaces have distanced themselves from a …