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# Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
- URL: https://werd.io/peter-thiel-and-silicon-valleys-pursuit-of-power/
- Published: 2021-09-20T18:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-20T18:56:00.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"The specifics of the discussion were secret — but, as I report in my book, Thiel later told a confidant that Zuckerberg came to an understanding with Kushner during the meal. Facebook, he promised, would avoid fact-checking po­litical speech — thus allowing the Trump campaign to claim whatever it wanted. In return the Trump administra­tion would lay off on any heavy-handed regulations. Facebook had long seen itself as a government unto itself; now, thanks to the understanding brokered by Thiel, the site would push what the Thiel confidant called “state-sanctioned conservatism.”" Yikes.

\[[Link](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html)\]