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THE WEEK India
|January 26, 2025
It’s been a very macho fortnight
A whole bunch of gents have recently said or done some very manly things, starting with Mark Zuckerberg. The Meta CEO, who has been doing a lot of mixed martial arts and hunting, and visiting with Donald Trump in November ’24, is now calling for a more ‘masculine’ company culture and leadership style.
To be fair, he did get famous by creating Facemash (a site that sourced photographs of female Harvard undergraduates without permission from the university’s online directories, then presented users with pairs of women and asked them to rank who was hotter. The homepage stated, “Were we admitted for our looks? No. Will we be judged by them? Yes.”) So he’s just reverting to type, really.
Anyway, Meta is loosening restrictions on discussions of contentious social issues, such as immigration, gender and sexuality. It has scrapped its fact-checking programme aimed at curbing misinformation, placing the onus on users to police falsehoods. And it will insert more political content into people’s feeds, after previously de-emphasizing that very material. So, things are starting to smell pretty Musky at Facebook.
This story is from the January 26, 2025 edition of THE WEEK India.
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