They say it's hard to turn a battleship around, but Mark Zuckerberg just about-faced his globe-spanning, $1.5 trillion-value, 3 billion-user company — transforming Meta from a bastion of Silicon Valley's socially progressive neoliberalism into a full-on MAGA hive.
Why it matters: After Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump and Trumpism, Silicon Valley is holding its breath to see whether a whole row of tech dominoes is about to fall in the same direction.
Roy Austin Jr., who built and led a small civil rights team inside Meta beginning in 2021, is departing the company, Austin announced in a Facebook post Friday evening.
Why it matters: It's the first notable departure from the social media giant since CEO Mark Zuckerberg's wave of rightward moves this week, which included shuttering a fact-checking operation, loosening hate speech restrictions and ending diversity programs.
