Zuck your feelings

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4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Meta is going MAGA. New York magazine’s John Herrman explains Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover. Writer Ben Wofford introduces Meta’s policy puppet master. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn with help from Travis Larchuck, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc. during an event. Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mark Zuckerberg's in his cool era. He's letting his hair grow out. He's wearing black t-shirts
0:07.8	with a gold chain. He covered Get Low with T-Pain.
0:11.2	That's him singing.
0:16.5	Hoping you can sock it to me, baby, one more time.
0:22.8	Mark Zuckerberg is also in his MAGA era.
0:26.4	He's throwing a party at Trump's inauguration next week.
0:30.1	He went on Joe Rogan to say companies need more masculine energy.
0:33.7	He's ending META's DEI initiatives.
0:36.5	He's taking tampons out of the men's bathrooms at his offices.
0:39.8	He's getting rid of the non-binary and transgender themes on MEDA's Messenger app.
0:44.3	But perhaps most important of all, he's changing meta's content moderation and fact-checking policies.
0:51.7	We are going to poke around the new Zuck Your Feelings Metaverse on
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