Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has undergone physical and political transformation. The skinny teenager who founded Facebook in his dorm room is now called US President Donald Trump and is a muscular jiu-jitsu enthusiast who wants to see more “masculine energy” at work.
Is this all an act? Is Zuckerberg doing anything that is necessary to infiltrate the Trump administration and ensure that Meta is the winner of the AI race? Or was “Magamark” the real Mark Zuckerberg all along?
Murad Ahmed speaks to Hannah Murphy, a technology correspondent for FT in San Francisco, and Katie Harbath, former Facebook executive for Zuckerberg and now CEO of Anchor Change.
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How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawl
How Joel Kaplan became Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted political fixer
Openai says Meta is trying to poach staff with a $100 million sign-on offer
The High-Tech Titans are standing with Donald Trump to kill activism in Silicon Valley
This season of Tech Tonic is presented by Murad Ahmed and produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon. The senior producer is Edwin Lane and the executive producer is Flow Phillips. Sound design by Odinn Ingibergsson, Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Metaphorical Music’s original music, Manuela Zaragoza and Tocker Forhets are audio from FT’s acting co-head.
Read the transcript of this episode on FT.com
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