The fusillade of major announcements from Meta this month — including the termination of its fact-checking and DEI programs and the ascension of its enigmatic content-moderation czar, Joel Kaplan, to head global policy — prompted a familiar churn of political reaction across the left and right.

He has gone through a transformation and has become a cool looking dude with the gold necklace and [affinity for] the UFC. It’s the new Zuckerberg,” Ben Mezrich, whose book “The

Last Thursday Mark Zuckerberg named Joel Kaplan as the company’s head of public policy. Kaplan is, of course, a Republican in good standing, stalwart friend of Brett Kavanaugh, and somewhere between friendly-toward and horny-for Trumpism.

Joel Kaplan, Meta’s new chief global affairs officer, played a leading role in Tuesday’s content moderation announcement.

A day after announcing that UFC President/co-founder Dana White would be joining Meta's board, Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced

Nick Clegg is to make way for Meta’s top Republican ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Who is he – and why does it matter?

It’ll be quite a spectacle, and one in marked contrast to Trump’s first presidency, when he was widely cold-shouldered. There is, of course, nothing unusual about business attempting to cosy up to an incoming president in the hope of influence,

That is why the most consequential announcement involves Joel Kaplan, Zuckerberg's tight-lipped ... in disbelief to the voice on the other end: It was Mark Zuckerberg — calling them, at Kaplan's arrangement — asking for a personal word with Trump.

I think we're doing the right thing,” he told me, “It’s just that we should've done it sooner.” Seven years later, Zuckerberg no longer thinks more moderation is the right thing. In a five-minute Reel,

Readers discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s decisions to end fact-checking on social media, DEI program in Meta. Regarding the Jan. 8 front-page article “ Meta ends fact checks as it readies for Trump era ”:

Benjamin Wofford has written for Wired, Politico Magazine, Vox and Rolling Stone, and is a graduate of Stanford Law School.

The Meta CEO is remaking himself — and his company — as Trump sets a new tone for the country.