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Meta’s concerted effort to win over Trump and his fellow Republicans, which began before the election and went into hyperdrive after Trump’s victory, has delivered an extraordinary series of victories to the company. Far from threatening Zuckerberg, Trump now routinely meets with him at the White House — and the executive branch is now aggressively pursuing Meta’s anti-regulation agenda both in the United States and abroad.
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This year the company ended its fact-checking programs in the United States, turned off many of its content moderation systems, and created exceptions to its hate speech policy to allow for dehumanizing speech about immigrants, transgender people and other groups. It also donated 25 million to settle a lawsuit](https://www.platformer.news/r/f72a4f8e?m=6c72beaf-55dd-4119-b61d-d125f9491c34) he filed after the company suspended his account for leading an insurrection against the government.