{"id":2389610,"date":"2025-01-13T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-defends-masculinity-in-post-election-makeover\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:22:19","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-defends-masculinity-in-post-election-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-defends-masculinity-in-post-election-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Defends Masculinity In Post-Election Makeover"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fmark-zuckerberg-defends-masculinity-in-post-election-makeover%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=2389610&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>In a recent\u200c interview\u2064 on \u2062&#8221;The \u2063Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; meta \u200dCEO mark Zuckerberg discussed his company&#8217;s post-election transformation and shared his \u200cviews on masculinity and free\u2063 speech. He expressed concern over the \u2064cultural narrative that labels\u200c masculinity\u200d as toxic, arguing \u200dfor the importance of both masculine\u200c and feminine energies in society. Zuckerberg attributed his evolving perspective \u2063on \u200cmasculinity to his\u2064 involvement in martial arts, specifically Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which \u2062he believes embodies a \u200cmore traditionally\u2063 masculine culture.\u2063 During the conversation,\u2064 Vice President-elect J.D. Vance \u2062speculated that Zuckerberg could be a hidden supporter of the Republican \u200bparty, linking \u2063his newfound interests\u200b in martial arts to a shift in conservative \u200cpolitical alignment.Some studies\u200d mentioned\u2063 suggest a correlation between testosterone levels and\u2064 conservative political preferences,further fueling conversations about Zuckerberg&#8217;s political leanings amidst his personal transformation labeled as \u2062&#8221;bro-ification.&#8221;  <\/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<div>\n<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg promoted his company&rsquo;s post-election makeover with an interview on &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7k1ehaE0bdU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Joe Rogan Experience<\/a>&rdquo; last week wherein Silicon Valley&rsquo;s censor-in-chief suddenly became a champion of free speech and masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s one thing to say we want to be kind of like welcoming and make a good environment for everyone and I think it&rsquo;s another to basically say that &lsquo;masculinity is bad,&#8217;&rdquo; Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/11\/business\/mark-zuckerberg-praises-benefits-of-masculine-energy-says-dei-culturally-neutered-corporate-america\/\">said<\/a> on Rogan&rsquo;s podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I just think we kind of swung culturally to that part of the kind of, the spectrum, where you&rsquo;re like, okay, masculinity is toxic, we have to get rid of it completely. It&rsquo;s like, no, both of these things are good. Right? You want feminine energy, you want masculine energy. I think you&rsquo;re going to have parts of society that have more of one or the other. I think that&rsquo;s all good. But I do think corporate culture sort of had swung towards being this somewhat more neutered thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Zuckerberg explained that his recent embrace of martial arts had shaped his thinking. The Facebook founder previously <a href=\"https:\/\/jitsmagazine.com\/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-love-for-bjj-and-mma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Rogan in 2022 that he started Brazilian jiu-jitsu training after coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t really feel that until I got involved in martial arts, which I think is still a much more masculine culture,&rdquo; Zuckerberg said. &ldquo;Not that it doesn&rsquo;t try to be inclusive in its own way, but I think there&rsquo;s just more of that energy there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President-elect J.D. Vance suspected Zuckerberg was a closeted supporter of the Republican ticket last fall during a separate interview with Rogan just days before the election. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My secret theory is that Zuck is now a Trump supporter, but he can&rsquo;t say that publicly, of course,&rdquo; Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/jd-vance-joe-rogan-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-podcast-1978248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;But hopefully he is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The two credited the influence of martial arts on Zuckerberg&rsquo;s transition, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/10\/04\/mark-zuckerberg-transformation-meta-ceo-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labeled <\/a>by the Washington Post as a &ldquo;bro-ification.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Zuckerberg has gotten really into mixed martial arts, he&rsquo;s gotten really into jiu-jitsu and really into training, and there&rsquo;s very few things that will turn you into a conservative more than martial arts,&rdquo; Rogan <a href=\"https:\/\/turboscribe.ai\/transcript\/share\/7106680211997884898\/hTqVBhpb6BKnhauq1ABtP0BfODHJhzLFMBmSXiBpklg\/full-transcript-jd-vance-and-joe-rogan-2221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Have you seen all these studies that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">basically connect testosterone levels<\/a> in young adults and conservative politics?&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;So maybe that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s going on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Scientist and author Kevin Bass shared one such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openicpsr.org\/openicpsr\/project\/155441\/version\/V1\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> from 2021 on X in response to a listener speculating Zuckerberg was on performance-enhancing steroids. A researcher at Claremont Graduate University examined the political preferences of 136 healthy men during the 2011 presidential election season and found when &ldquo;weakly affiliated Democrats received additional testosterone,&rdquo; they reported a &ldquo;red shift&rdquo; in favorability towards Republicans. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>2021 placebo-controlled study:<\/p>\n<p>Testosterone injections induce a &#8220;red shift&#8221; (a shift to the political right) among weakly affiliated Democratic men, demonstrating that hormone levels are associated with political preferences. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3LJCFMGAYp\">https:\/\/t.co\/3LJCFMGAYp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/olmkJevDEy\">pic.twitter.com\/olmkJevDEy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinnbass\/status\/1878193960293634446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openicpsr.org\/openicpsr\/project\/155441\/version\/V1\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> published by a team of researchers in Australia last July analyzed how changes in testosterone and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eight-uncommon-signs-of-burnout\/\" title=\"Eight Uncommon Signs of Burnout\">stress hormone cortisol<\/a> could shift individuals&rsquo; opinions. They found men with increased testosterone were more likely to support a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico or Great Britain&rsquo;s exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg repeatedly slammed the Biden administration on Rogan&rsquo;s podcast last week and condemned the censorship regime that his own company participated in.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that the [government] pushing for social media companies to censor stuff was legal,&rdquo; Zuckerberg said. <\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg claimed that whenever Meta resisted requests from the White House, &ldquo;all these different agencies and branches of government basically just, like, started investigating and coming after our company.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was brutal,&rdquo; Zuckerberg said. &ldquo;It was brutal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The CEO behind Facebook and Instagram preceded the interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/07\/zuckerberg-owes-restitution-to-those-he-tried-to-destroy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement<\/a> that his company&rsquo;s platforms would cease fact-checking operations as Americans prepare for the Republican administration to take over next week. Zuckerberg also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-facebook-zuckerberg-board-members-dana-white-199436c62c934ebb751b564f874ad2f6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appointed<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, who prominently endorsed Trump last year and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=anZ_4mf6BWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spoke<\/a> at the nominating convention in Wisconsin, to Meta&rsquo;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth, but the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they&rsquo;ve created, especially in the U.S.,&rdquo; said Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg, however, has made similar promises before, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/27\/zuckerberg-admits-facebook-helped-feds-on-covid-censorship-election-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a> to the House Judiciary Committee just last summer that his company was &ldquo;ready to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-admits-censorship-and-vows-to-curb-election-donations-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mark Zuckerberg admits censorship and vows to curb election donations - Washington Examiner\">push back&#038;rdquo<\/a>; on election interference in the form of online censorship. But by September, Facebook was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/18\/facebook-censors-federalist-report-on-springfield-goose-hunting-with-chinese-funded-fact-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censoring<\/a>&nbsp;Federalist coverage of Haitians hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/07\/were-still-waiting-for-facebook-to-atone-for-the-11-times-we-know-of-it-censored-the-federalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We&rsquo;re Still Waiting For Facebook To Atone For The 11 Times (We Know Of) It Censored The Federalist<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerberg champions free speech and masculinity on Rogan&#8217;s podcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2389613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Zuckerberg-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[13671,17991,35598,19503,32364],"class_list":["post-2389610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-masculinity","tag-makeover","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-post-election","tag-social-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Zuckerberg-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389610","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389615,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389610\/revisions\/2389615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}