Newsweek: Facebook Embraces Donald Trump
Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by Newsweek for a story about Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement of changes to Facebook's fact-checking and content-removal policies, changes widely viewed as an attempt to win the favor of the incoming Trump administration.
Zuckerberg is "following in Elon Musk's footsteps," Robert Lalka, a professor at Tułane University's Freeman School of Business and author of The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power, told Newsweek. "But currying favor with Trump and his supporters will be far harder for Zuckerberg, given recent history."
To read the story in its entirety, visit newsweek.com:
https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-embraces-donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg-2011026
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