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Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media
The Meta CEO is abandoning his commitment to the truth in favor of a Trump-style playbook.
Zuckerberg and Rogan went on at length about how podcasters and influencers were more popular than mainstream reporters, because no one trusts those institutions anymore, and celebrated statistics that indicate that many people get their news from social media these days. In the same week that Rogan’s podcast dropped, Peter Thiel—the billionaire VC who led Facebook’s initial funding— published a piece in the Financial Times that resonated with the Zuckerberg/Rogan theory that the media shrouds things in darkness rather than sunlight. But on every single day, the thousands of journalists who still have jobs seek truth by gathering facts, whether it’s to locate a mayor’s nighttime peregrinations or to show how the FBI could have acted faster to stop a notorious swatter targeting high schools.
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