http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/e94f730ca2e6b631 https://verfassungsblog.de/zuckerbergs-strategy/ Zuckerberg’s Strategy - Leveraging Trump to Defy European Regulation? Bayer, Judit eng 2025-01-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 DSA Donald Trump Facebook Freedom of Speech Meta Musk Elon | 1971– | Unternehmer; Investor Plutocracy Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker Zuckerberg Mark content moderation democracy Facebook Meta Musk Elon | 1971– | Unternehmer; Investor Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker Zuckerberg Mark Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On January 7, 2025, and in the days following, the founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, made a series of statements that framed Meta's previous and future content policy with an evidently strategic intention. The change of content moderation policy, as described in three comprehensive points in his personal announcement on his own platforms, may even sound reasonable, as discussed below. However, the reasoning and the framing of these changes appear to show that Meta is up to something entirely different from just further optimizing its curation of content on its platforms.