Zuckerberg and Metta's charm offensive might have some implications for the rest of big tech and their relationship with the incoming administration.

Adir DuBos is looking at that in today's tech check. Morning, Dee.

Hey, Carl, and one company in particular, the elements they're falling into place for Google to become public enemy number one for the incoming administration.

Moments and wording in that video from Zuckerberg

where it felt like he was talking directly to Trump and the MAGA base. Too much censorship.

Recent elections as a cultural tipping point. A new era of civic content moving teams

out of California to Texas. It all repairs the relationship that has grown extremely

contentious coming into the campaign

with Trump saying that Zuckerberg should be jailed.

He's essentially running the playbook that Elon Musk has deployed since buying Twitter that

endeared him to the president-elect and ultimately gave him unprecedented access to the incoming administration.

Now, it puts the attention squarely on Google, another punching bag

of Trump and VP Vance, by the way, Google that has done less, at least publicly, to win

them over in the lead up to a second term and whose own policies and culture could now garner

a harder look. YouTube, of course, is a video, social media, cultural powerhouse.

As meta ends fact-checking and rolls back content moderation, YouTube's policies by comparison,

they're looking more stringent and ideologically based.

And that could be fodder for Trump's FCC chair, Brendan Carr, who has threatened broad-ranging actions against what he calls a censorship cartel.

Meta's changes, in fact, they're just what Carr has asked for. So next move, that may go to Google.

There's also the Trump inaugural fund that is racking up donations from the biggest names in the tech world,

including Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Amazon, and of course, meta.

Google and Sunder Pichai, they're looking like a glaring omission as we get closer to the day.

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