{"id":2388100,"date":"2025-01-08T21:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T02:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-going-full-maga-dana-white-joins-meta-board-of-directors-as-zuckerberg-promises-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T02:13:55","slug":"facebook-going-full-maga-dana-white-joins-meta-board-of-directors-as-zuckerberg-promises-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-going-full-maga-dana-white-joins-meta-board-of-directors-as-zuckerberg-promises-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Going Full MAGA? Dana White Joins Meta Board of Directors as Zuckerberg Promises Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-going-full-maga-dana-white-joins-meta-board-of-directors-as-zuckerberg-promises-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2388100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-releases-statement-on-hunter-biden-verdict-calls-out-biden-crime-family\/\" title=\"Trump Campaign Issues Statement on Hunter Biden Verdict, Accuses &#039;Biden Crime Family\">article discusses recent developments<\/a> at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, \u2063adn \u2062WhatsApp, particularly regarding \u2062its board of directors and changes in\u200d social media policies.Dana White, the CEO of UFC and\u200d an ally of former president\u2063 Donald Trump, joined Meta&#8217;s board, expressing enthusiasm\u200d for \u2062the future of\u200d social \u200bmedia and AI.The\u2064 inclusion of White\u2064 and other new board members, such as John Elkann and Charlie Songhurst, brings\u2064 the total number\u2064 of directors to 13.<\/p>\n<p>The piece also highlights \u2063a shift in Meta&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-projects-tweets-of-private-dms-not-a-violation-twitter-says\/\" title=\"Lincoln Project\u2019s Tweets of Private DMs Not a Violation, Twitter Says\">content moderation approach<\/a>, coinciding with \u2063the end of fact-checking policies that \u2063many\u2064 criticized for being \u200bpolitically biased. David Sacks, an adviser to \u200dTrump, celebrated this \u200cas a \u200bmajor victory for \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dark-money-free-speech-addressed-by-h-r-1\/\" title=\"Dark money, free speech addressed by H.R.1?\">free speech advocates<\/a>. He acknowledged Zuckerberg&#8217;s course correction as recognizing that\u2064 previous censorship efforts had gone too far and expressed hope\u2064 that other tech companies would follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">unnamed\u200b insiders cited<\/a> in the piece, Zuckerberg is positioned as a centrist\u200b executive who has \u2062brought in more Republican-oriented advisers, signaling\u200d a \u2063shift toward a less partisan approach. This transformation reflects broader changes\u2064 within the \u2063social media landscape as it aligns \u200dmore with middle-ground principles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>There were hints of a new dawn in the world of social media last summer when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg raved over President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s response to an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Trump raising his fist while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-zuckerberg-ditches-biden-says-trump-surviving-attack-bada-thing-ever-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bleeding <\/a>from his wounded ear was &ldquo;one of the most badass things I&rsquo;ve ever seen in my life,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Then came some dismantling of several entrenched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-gets-official-backing-zuckerbergs-meta-didnt-even-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policies<\/a> that muzzled content.<\/p>\n<p>And on Monday, the revolution took a new turn as Dana White, a longtime ally of Trump and the CEO of UFC, joined the board of directors of Meta.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never been interested in joining a board of directors until I got the offer to join Meta&rsquo;s board. I am a huge believer that social media and AI are the future,&rdquo; said Dana White, said in a news release posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2025\/01\/dana-white-john-elkann-charlie-songhurst-meta-board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am very excited to join this incredible team and to learn more about this business from the inside. There is nothing I love more than building brands, and I look forward to helping take Meta to the next level,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The release said that John Elkann, CEO of the European investment company Exor and Executive Chair of Ferrari and Stellantis, and Charlie Songhurst, a technology investor were also joining the board.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, created three seats on the board for those appointed Monday, &nbsp;according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2025\/01\/06\/ufc-ceo-dana-white-joins-meta\/77496513007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>. The board now has 13 directors, including Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidSacks\/status\/1876682085932712302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on social media platform X<\/a>, David Sacks, Trump&rsquo;s adviser on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, said that the recent end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mark-zuckerberg-axes-politically-biased-fact-check-system-announces-massive-free-speech-moves-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-checking<\/a> &mdash; for which had become notorious &mdash; was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ufc-president-dana-white-reached-mark-zuckerberg-help-successful-mma-promotion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major victory<\/a> for all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For those of us who have been fighting the free speech wars for years, this feels like a major victory and turning point. Thank you President Trump for creating this political and cultural realignment. Any other man would have been destroyed by the prosecution and persecution directed at you, your family, and your businesses. You triumphed,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you Elon Musk for charging into the breach when free speech was at its lowest ebb. You defied the global censorship machine, proved Community Notes worked, and gave us the Twitter Files,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Sacks praised Zuckerberg for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/zuckerberg-drops-fact-checking-says-process-eroded-trust-nyt-blames-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reversing<\/a> his own policies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you Zuck and Meta for recognizing that the censorship had gone too far, and seizing the opportunity to make a course correction. I do believe you are getting back to your roots. Will the rest of Big Tech follow suit? It&rsquo;s time,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For those of us who have been fighting the free speech wars for years, this feels like a major victory and turning point.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you President Trump for creating this political and cultural realignment. Any other man would have been destroyed by the prosecution and persecution&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8b5CN36QgV\">https:\/\/t.co\/8b5CN36QgV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Sacks (@DavidSacks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidSacks\/status\/1876682085932712302?\">January 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a report that traced Facebook&rsquo;s recent apparent change from a loyal purveyor of what the left wanted to a more middle-of-the-road platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/social-media\/mark-zuckerberg-pivoted-meta-right-rcna186687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a> quoted one insider it did not name as saying times have changed within Meta.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mark is a very centrist executive. He&rsquo;s not a partisan either way,&rdquo; the source said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But he has a cadre of professional political advisers and executives that have Republican profiles that are ascendant in the company,&rdquo; the source said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Trump, raising his fist despite bleeding from his ear, was described by Zuckerberg as \u201cone of the most badass things I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d Subsequently, some long-standing content policies were relaxed. Recently, Dana White, a close ally of Trump and UFC CEO, joined Meta&#8217;s board of directors. He expressed enthusiasm for being part of the team and contributing to the company&#8217;s growth. Alongside him on the board are John Elkann and Charlie Songhurst. The board now consists of 13 members including Zuckerberg. David Sacks, an advisor to Trump on AI and cryptocurrency, celebrated the end of fact-checking as a significant win for free speech advocates and commended Zuckerberg for adjusting his policies in response to censorship concerns within Big Tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2388101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dana-White.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34660,4573,5656],"class_list":["post-2388100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dana-white","tag-facebook","tag-maga"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dana-White.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388104,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388100\/revisions\/2388104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}