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No, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t get to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast and pretend he’s a free speech champion as if there were nothing he could have done to stop the censorship at Facebook that rigged the 2020 election and probably cost lives during the pandemic.
The wanksta-lite makeover can’t hide Zuck’s sins, from throttling The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election to deplatforming a sitting president, Donald Trump, to suppressing COVID-19 dissent.
No matter how many “Iron Neck” workouts he does in an attempt to de-nerd himself, the billionaire tech titan will always be a spineless coward whose monopoly needs to be broken up. No one person should be wielding historically unprecedented power to censor political thought and speech, least of all a socially inept tech bro.
The Facebook founder whose Meta group behemoth owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp whined to Rogan Friday that “these people from the Biden administration would call up our team, and, like, scream at them, and curse,” to force them to take down posts. Now he tells us.
Fair-weather FB friend
But why did he stay quiet when the landmark censorship case Missouri v. Biden (now Murthy v. Missouri) was being heard by the Supreme Court? His testimony would have changed everything and shown conclusively that the Biden administration had systematically, illegally subverted the First Amendment.
It was only when House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan started subpoenaing documents that Zuck fessed up that Facebook’s censorship of The Post was prompted by a specific warning from the FBI “about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.”
Previously he told Rogan in August 2022 that he did “not remember . . . specifically” the FBI warning but “it basically fit the pattern” of the Post story.
His p.r. people explicitly ruled out the Hunter Biden connection when I asked.
So, until Zuckerberg gets rid of all the Democrat operatives/censors and CIA/FBI moles in his outfit and opens the books like Elon Musk did with Twitter, why would anyone trust him?
And what about the $450 million in “Zuckerbucks” he donated for “election integrity” in 2020 that mainly helped Democrats? On top of censoring our stories, that makes twice that Zuckerberg interfered with the 2020 election and likely changed the course of history.
Hiring a few Trump allies and flying to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring is nowhere near enough.
Zuckerberg’s shameless efforts to worm his way into Trump world, outlined by Axios over the weekend, included a seven-step strategy to win over the president-elect that he unveiled with “a methodical striptease” over nine days:
Put a Trump friend on your board, with UFC CEO Dana White; promote a prominent Republican as your chief global affairs officer, former Bush operative Joel Kaplan; align your philosophy with Trump’s on free speech by ending the biased “fact-checking” program in exchange for X-style community notes; announce your philosophical change on “Fox & Friends,” knowing Trump is watching; take a big public stand on a favorite MAGA issue — ending DEI; amplify that stand with a Kaplan interview on “Fox News Digital”; Go on Joe Rogan’s podcast and blame the Biden administration for everything.
The only thing missing is Zuck’s $1 million donation to the president-elect’s inaugural fund.
Could he be any more obvious? Well, yes, as it turns out.
To complete his toady routine, on Friday, the day his latest soft-soap Rogan interview aired, Zuck flew to Palm Beach wearing a suit and — no kidding — red tie, parked his private jet next to Trump’s and groveled off to Mar-a-Lago for the second time since the November election. Ugh.
I guess we can’t expect subtlety or finesse from a tech nerd.
But, as MAGA tribune Steve Bannon told me Sunday, the country has had a bellyful of “nerd rule.”
“Zuckerberg’s the worst of the worst. He had the biggest platform and went out of his way to try to crush the truth. Remember what he did to the laptop and anything from the pandemic . . . He’s been dead wrong on everything,” Bannon said. “He’s immature and lacks the judgment to have that much power and that much control.”
Danger of ‘nerd rule’
Zuckerberg pretends he’s always been pro-free speech, but he buckled at the first sign of bullying from Democrats who blamed Facebook for the 2016 successes of the Brexit referendum and Trump campaign. He obliged them by implementing biased fact-checking operations and censoring conservatives under the guise of “misinformation.”
Bannon was permanently banned from Facebook in November 2020 on the pretext that he had used the commonplace expression “heads on pikes” to describe how Trump should make an example of COVID tsar Tony Fauci.
Trump also was “indefinitely suspended” the day after the Capitol riot. Zuckerberg’s head of “global affairs,” Nick Clegg, a Europhile, anti-Brexit, anti-populist former British politician, declared it was a “very well-justified decision” to ban the sitting president. “You can’t incite violence on our platform.”
Trump’s video did not incite violence. He told the rioters to “go home in peace.”
But Zuckerberg was sucking up to a different president those days, embracing Biden’s “equity” agenda, and took to bolstering his woke corporate policies with an Obama alum as Facebook’s new “vice president of civil rights” and a global “oversight board” of human-rights activists paid to rubber-stamp its crackdown on conservatives.
“President Biden already issued a number of executive orders on areas that we as a company care quite deeply about,” Zuckerberg was heard saying in a recording of a Facebook staff meeting leaked to Project Veritas in 2021. “Areas like immigration, preserving DACA and ending restrictions on travel from Muslim-majority countries, as well as . . . on climate and advancing racial justice and equity.”
There’s nothing to stop this craven sycophant from reversing his new MAGA-friendly policies the minute the political winds change again.
“I don’t care how much he grovels to Donald Trump now as a supplicant. He will turn and he will turn hard as soon as it’s in his self-interest. Zuckerberg places the republic in a very dangerous situation, saddling the country with a nerd culture, nerd rule,” said Bannon. “The combo of tech and money is a unique national security threat to the US.”
Break up the tech elite
The only way to neutralize that threat is for the Trump Justice Department under incoming AG Pam Bondi, whose confirmation hearings start Wednesday, to launch antitrust action immediately to break up Big Tech’s monopoly on digital communication, in the way President Teddy Roosevelt broke up the railroad transportation monopoly in 1902.
Roosevelt’s trust-busting actions across various industries were popular with the public and ultimately were a boon to the economy, by fostering competition, which lowered prices and improved services.
As we are barreling toward an AI revolution that will change everything about the way we live and work, the last thing we need is for humanity’s fate to be controlled by a handful of megalomaniacal, low-empathy tech elites like Zuckerberg.