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Jan 06, 2026
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Zuckerberg has continually promised improvement. And afterward, he has always grown wealthier. More powerful. And his business has continually grown even more questionable.
In fact, as internal documents show, at the time of the questioning, 100,000 minors were being harassed daily on Meta’s platforms, and the company knew about it. In emails to company management, employees complained that there was much more that Zuckerberg could do and that more money could be invested. But the boss spent years ignoring such complaints.
Zuckerberg, indeed, is a man of two faces.
On the one hand, he plays the father of three who reads to his little daughters in the evening. A man who fights for good, through whose services the people were given a voice during the Arab Spring and dictators were toppled. An executive who admits mistakes and eliminates them. An owner who has transformed his company into a model of diversity, equality and liberalism – just to be on the right side of history.
On the other hand, he is a cold technocrat. The programmer with nerves of steel who simply “further developed” the idea for Facebook from his classmates. Who spies on his own users. Who largely abolished fact-checkers, thus provoking a flood of fake news.
Books, portraits and even a feature film examine these two Zuckerbergs. And the world has been puzzling for years over which version of this man will ultimately prevail: Jekyll or Hyde. The good-natured cuddly type in a hoodie or the ruthless, power-hungry mogul who subordinates everything to his own success.
Almost one year into Donald Trump’s second term, the answer seems clear. Trump’s MAGA takeover of America hasn’t just changed the U.S. It has also changed the Facebook boss. Nice Mark, it seems, is no longer needed in an America where selfishness and ruthlessness are considered the highest virtues. Nice Mark can go.
What’s interesting is how quickly Zuckerberg has shed that role. How smoothly he has adapted to the new power structures. It raises the question: Is the new, hard Mark the core of his character? One he has kept hidden for years for strategic reasons? Or is this transformation also just another about-face?
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