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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

TBD | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Misinformation, disinformation, politics—Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is not going to shield users from those anymore. What’s behind the abrupt change in direction? Guest: Sheera Frenkel, New York Times tech reporter Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Patrick Fort, and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3

When I do, it's usually because it's caused some kind of disruption in my life or given me problems for that day.

0:50.9

And so I can't say that I have had any positive reflections on masculine energy recently.

0:56.7

Shira is Shira Frankel, a New York Times reporter. And I was asking her that question because of this guy.

1:03.8

All these forms of energy are good. And I think having a culture that like celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.

1:15.7

And that's, that has been, that has been kind of a positive experience for me.

1:23.0

That's Mark Zuckerberg, browing out with Joe Rogan last week, saying corporate culture has been

1:28.7

neutered and needs more masculine energy.

1:32.6

I mean, that was one of many revelations we had this week about what Mark Zuckerberg

1:36.8

thinks about the world.

1:38.1

And for me, as someone who's looked at Facebook for years now and looked at what they

1:42.8

represent as a company. It's just interesting

1:45.4

that as his company has steadily really shed female employees and female executives,

1:51.9

for him to say we need more masculine energy as kind of, you know, it's an interesting choice.

1:57.9

Shira co-wrote a book about Facebook with her fellow Times reporter Cecilia Kong and says,

2:03.7

this Zuck, the one we saw on Rogan, that is the real suck.

2:09.1

He spoke on that show the way people describe him speaking in backyard barbecues and dinner

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