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So, essentially, they wanted to enter the Chinese market so much that they were even willing to comply with the local rules and regulations!
This is such a big secret, we really needed a whistleblower to tell us that!
Yeah, the article falls flat immediately once you look into the details but what’s interesting is that it looks like American oligarchs are starting to attack each other openly (Bezos who owns WaPo attacks Zuck here) and this piece exists so that Trump might see the headline. I have no doubts that most of the big tech sold or traded all the data that they could confidentially already.
Is that something new? As in, has WaPo not been willing to go after Meta in a similar manner before?
Historically WaPo has been critical of Meta and X but usually they stuck to facts. This is almost made up and exists to exploit Trump’s neurodivergence where it’s likely he’ll see Meta and China in the sentence and act off the headline alone (sadly, this is a reflection of society in general). There are rules to post-truth politics even if truth is not necessary ;)
EU: So US tech-companies will comply with regulations if threatened with market lock-out? 👀
As much as we all despise Elon, I personally think Mark is the worst. I hope he falls into lava. Maybe take his bloodline with him on a volcano vacation.