“Daaaaaaaaad, Europeans reproduce me!”
Very well, it is therefore not a direct quote from the Meta World Affairs Manager, Joel Kaplan, who spoke at the Munich security conference on Sunday, but it is not far away.
According to BloombergKaplan came to Europe to make it known that Meta “will not fail” to ensure that President Donald Trump is involved if he continues to face repression in the hands of the European Union. Kaplan would have told the public that it was up to the Trump administration to decide whether the EU penalties against American technological companies are unfair, but that will not be afraid to shout if necessary.
“When companies are processed differently and in a discriminatory manner against them, this should be underlined to the original government of this company,” Kaplan said during a panel at the conference, by Bloomberg. “Although we want to work within the limits of the laws that Europe has adopted, and we will always emphasize when we think we have been treated unfairly.”
Meta was certainly in the speeds of the EU, accumulating More than $ 3 million in fines for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) alone and faces a current survey This alleges that he has not protected minors on his platform. Earlier this month, Meta announced it would open its Facebook market Platform to third -party EU competitors after an antitrust fine. Again, Meta could simply stop maintaining monopolistic control over platforms and breaking the laws if he does not want to deal with the consequences. Just a free idea for Zuckerberg and the gang.
The most remarkable is that Kaplan signals a new posture with regard to international regulators. The company has certainly expressed its dissatisfaction with the sanctions it has been confronted in the past and has gone to dispute a few. But now he is trying a new strategy: threatening to shout at Trump.
This is not the most surprising decision. Zuckerberg has been hiding in Trump since he started to integrate long before the 2024 elections. After Trump’s victory, Zuck made a duty to go down and Visit him in Mar-A-Lagostarted to change platform moderation policies to be more favorable to the Trumpian agenda, and promoted Kaplan, a long -standing republican political agent.
Trump also gave early signs that he could postpone attempts to punish American companies like Meta. While Speaking During the World Economic Forum last month, the president said that the EU should not inflict a fine of American companies, calling it “a form of taxation” and saying “We have very great complaints to the UE “.
It seems that Meta has recovered this message and moves it forward, managing it as a warning against regulators who could consider doing their work. I certainly cannot have that, especially not at Meta fees.
