Remember that kid in high school who would suddenly discover a deep passion for whatever music the popular crowd was into that week? Meta is essentially that kid, except instead of switching between pop-punk and indie rock, they’re pivoting between political ideologies with billion-dollar implications.
The backlash to Meta’s rightward pivot — from hiring Dana White (who has a history of domestic violence) to quietly dismantling fact-checking programs — reveals a peculiar blindness in progressive thinking.
Don’t get me wrong; Dana White (who has a history of domestic violence) is an appalling figure and Meta’s obsequiousness in the face of moral bankruptcy is distasteful. But the surprising part is that any of this has come as a surprise.
It’s as if progressives genuinely believed Meta’s previous embrace of progressive causes reflected conviction rather than careful calculation.
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