Politics and culture thus constitute something of a two-way street: Each is both downstream and upstream of the other. Both politics and culture are crucially important, and each of them greatly affects the other.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that he was ending professional fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram.

Mark Zuckerberg scrapped Meta’s censorship ... Kaplan, who once served as deputy chief of staff for George W. Bush, replaced Nick Clegg, who once headed the UK Liberal Democrat Party.

Early on in the interview, Zuckerberg tests out the water to see how much pushback he’ll get; Rogan is a notoriously soft interviewer — it’s like listening to your dumbest s

Even before the election, the world’s richest man, billionaire Elon Musk, was inseparable from Trump. There’s also Musk’s one-time PayPal colleague, Peter Thiel, who has been a longtime benefactor to incoming Vice President JD Vance.

The guest list includes some of America’s most influential tech billionaires and politicians as well as some foreign leaders and celebrities who have embraced Trump.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.

Tesla boss Elon Musk appeared momentarily memorised by the ornate ceiling of the rotunda, while Argentina's far-right president, Javier Milei was seen laughing with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook ... Kaplan was the White House deputy chief of staff under President George W. Bush, and has pushed against restrictions on politically sensitive ...