Meta can still have huge political influence.

[shaownhasan]

Is that a good thing?

Well, it depends on how you view it, and what peru b2b leads position Meta ends up being put in to make such calls.

Trump was repeatedly sanctioned by Facebook during his first term for making divisive, dangerous comments, while various Trump posts were also tagged with warning flags, to the ire of Trump himself.

Facebook post from Donald Trump
The repeated censorship of his posts is one of the main factors that led to Trump creating his own social network, and that’ll be a key difference this time around, in that Trump is now more aligned to Truth Social, as opposed to how he relied on Facebook and Twitter to reach an audience back in 2016.

That could mean that Meta ends up having fewer moderation calls to make either way, so in essence, the addition of more pro-Trump voices in its meetings could be more symbolic than anything else.

But it also depends on how Trump chooses to connect, and whether Meta looks to maintain its distance from him over the next four years. There’ll inevitably be times where Trump will make claims that are going to spark concern, and it’ll be in those situations where this could become an issue of debate, and the influence of people like Dana White may come into play.