{"id":133320,"date":"2024-08-28T09:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/zuckerbergs-new-washington-game\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:15:26","slug":"zuckerbergs-new-washington-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/zuckerbergs-new-washington-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg\u2019s new Washington game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133320\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Meta has largely won its legal battles over social media bias \u2014 and now its CEO is hedging his bets against a potential Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, the apologetic letter Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent to congressional Republicans on Monday looks like a capitulation in the long-simmering political wars over social media. But tech observers on both sides of the aisle say that in the wake of this summer\u2019s Supreme Court decisions on speech and social platforms, it also represents a shrewd political calculation \u2014 a surprise move by a CEO who wants to spend the next four years out of the political winds.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Zuckerberg openly admitted that the Biden administration pressured Meta to \u201ccensor\u201d certain content, particularly posts related to Covid-19. He expressed frustration that the company ultimately complied with those requests, and said it\u2019s \u201cready to push back\u201d next time.<\/p>\n<p>Some conservatives rallied around the letter as welcome evidence that President Joe Biden had overstepped \u2014 a reaction that, unlike in the past, seemed to absolve Meta and Zuckerberg of their role in the process. In posts on X, Reps. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) attacked the Biden administration for what they both called an \u201cabuse of power\u201d \u2014 but neither lawmaker took particularly pointed shots at the company or its CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Candeub, a former Trump official who led the administration\u2019s crusade against big tech\u2019s alleged anti-conservative bias in 2020, suggested GOP lawmakers who believe Zuckerberg has had a change of heart risk being snookered. \u201cYou have the head of one of the major social media companies who shamelessly admits that he colludes with government to limit the free speech rights of American citizens,\u201d Candeub said. \u201cAnd not only that \u2014 he admits to it, but then he gets \u2018nice guy\u2019 points by promising that he won\u2019t do it [again].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nu Wexler, a former Democratic congressional staffer and ex-spokesperson for several top tech firms in Washington, including Meta, sees Zuckerberg\u2019s letter as an attempt to tamp down longstanding Republican ire over Meta\u2019s perceived anti-conservative bias ahead of November \u2014 which could see Trump return to office and exact revenge on tech platforms that purportedly wronged him. \u201cLike most other large companies before a toss-up election, Meta is probably hedging its bets here,\u201d he said. Though the looming election might seem like a good reason to hedge those bets, Wexler and others see another reason for Zuckerberg\u2019s timing.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/27\/zuckerbergs-new-washington-game-00176527\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/27\/zuckerbergs-new-washington-game-00176527\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/zuckerbergs-new-washington-game\/\">Zuckerberg\u2019s new Washington game<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2071,606,607,608,15870,10646],"class_list":["post-133320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-meta","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-washington-game","tag-zuckerberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}