“ daaaaaaaaad, Europeans pick me again!”
Well, this is not a direct offer from Meta's director of global affairs, Joel Kaplan, who spoke at the Munich security conference on Sunday, but it's not far away.
According to Bloomberg, Kaplan popped up Europe to let political leaders there know that Meta “will not shirk” if Donald Trump continues to encounter suppression in the hands of the EU, thus making Donald Trump is involved. Kaplan reportedly told listeners that the Trump administration decided whether the EU's penalties for U.S. tech companies were unfair, but would not be afraid to scream when needed.
“When companies are different in ways that are kind to companies and treat them in a discriminatory way, that should be emphasized to the company's family government,” Kaplan said in Bloomberg. “While we want to have the scope of laws already passed in Europe,” he said. work within, but we always point out that when we think we are being treated unfairly, we will point out.”
Meta is certainly the EU's eye, receiving more than $3 million fines simply for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and is facing an ongoing investigation that claims it has failed to protect the unsuspected on its platform. Adult. Earlier this month, Meta announced that it would open its Facebook marketplace to EU third-party competitors after an antitrust fine. Again, if Meta doesn't want to deal with the consequences, Meta can simply stop monopoly control over the platform and break the law. Zuckerberg and the gang are just a free idea.
Most notably, Kaplan has issued a new gesture in terms of international regulators. The company certainly expressed dissatisfaction with the penalties it faced in the past and even raised objections to some. But a new strategy is being tried now: threatening to cry to Trump.
This is not the most surprising move. Zuckerberg has been investigating Trump since he started voting before the 2024 election. After Trump's victory, Zuck pointed to a decline and visited him at Mar-a-Lago, starting to change platform temperance policies to make Trump's agenda more favorable and promoted the long-time Republican political agent card Kaplan.
Trump also raised some early signs that he might work to punish American companies like Meta. Speaking at the World Economic Forum last month, the president said the EU should not fine U.S. companies, calling it “a form of taxation” and said “we have some big complaints about the EU.”
Metal seems to have grasped this information on that information and pushes it forward to warn the regulators that might be considering their work. Of course you can't own it, especially if you don't pay.
