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“It’s going to be a whole new ballgame with these tech oligarchs so close to Trump and using that to pressurize us,” an unnamed EU diplomat told The Financial Times. “So much is up in the air right now.”

In his farewell post, Austin notes that members of his team will “continue their work” in different parts of the company. “Building for everyone, listening to everyone, and meeting the needs and expectations of our global community is pretty much impossible,” he says.

On the way there, he stopped in Austin, Texas for an interview with Joe Rogan, where he got into more detail about his MAGA-fueled changes at Meta — the latest being his decision to end the company’s DEI programs. I’ve confirmed he’ll also attend Trump’s inauguration alongside other tech CEOs.

Zuckerberg has also “regularly spoken” to people like Marc Andreessen about “concerns that progressives are policing speech.”

We’ll have more coverage from the interview coming soon.

“Messenger is committed to building the safest private messaging experience that gives the growing LBGTQ+ community and its allies a trusted space to open up with confidence,” one announcement read. To borrow Mark Zuckerberg’s own words: sounds like virtue signaling.