CV NEWS FEED // One of billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s top executives recently stated that the Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) CEO wishes to seek an “active role” in advising the incoming Trump administration on technology policy.

The comments by Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg came less than a week after Zuckerberg shared a meal with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

Zuckerberg wants to play “an active role in the debates that any administration needs to have about maintaining America’s leadership in the technological sphere,” Clegg told journalists, as reported by the Financial Times on Tuesday.

The United States continuing to be a world leader in technology “is tremendously important given all the geostrategic uncertainties around the world, and particularly the pivotal role that AI [artificial intelligence] will play,” Clegg added.

Clegg also acknowledged to reporters that Meta “overdid it a bit” when it came to censoring posts on its platforms related to COVID.

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