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To Woo Trump, Zuckerberg Unleashes the 'Real Mark'
The Wall Street Journal|January 14, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg wants Donald Trump to get to know the "real Mark."
- MeghanBobrowsky, Rebecca Ballhaus and Annie Linskey
To Woo Trump, Zuckerberg Unleashes the 'Real Mark'

That is the latest message the shape-shifting chief executive sought to relay to the masses as he pushes an increasingly frenzied effort to recast himself as a friend of President-elect Trump at a moment of peril and opportunity for Meta Platforms.

On Friday, he met with the president-elect in Florida for the second time in seven weeks and torched Meta's longstanding diversity policies. Zuckerberg was at Mara-Lago in part to mediate a lawsuit Trump brought against Facebook and Zuckerberg in 2021 over the platform's suspension of his account following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter. Among the options for resolution is a monetary settlement.

Also on Friday, he appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast to trash the Biden administration and extol the benefits of masculinity in corporate leadership.

"I do think a lot of our society has become...kind of like,neutered, or like, emasculated," Zuckerberg said in an interview with the podcaster, who endorsed Trump, a Republican, just before the election.

"When you're running a company, people typically don't want to see you being like this ruthless person," he said. He said that people who have seen him competing in jujitsu have remarked, "That's the real Mark."

The day capped off the latest iteration of Zuckerberg's longtime inclination to "move fast and break things," a mantra he has used to steer himself and his company through one crisis after another for two decades.

The personal and companywide shifts go back a decade.

After revelations of Russian election interference in 2016, Zuckerberg appeared to embrace content-moderation initiatives he is now disbanding.

He also completed a walking tour of 30 states in 2017. And in 2020, Meta and other companies moved aggressively to police election and pandemic-related discourse.

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