yahoo news | Mark Zuckerberg offered to 'help' Elon Musk with DOGE in 2025

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, whose rivalry once led to a promised but never‑realized cage match in 2023, appear to have been on friendlier terms by early 2025. Court documents released on Friday show that on February 3, 2025 Zuckerberg texted Musk about his work with the now‑defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying “Looks like DOGE is making progress” and offering Meta’s assistance in taking down doxxing or threatening content aimed at the DOGE team. The same day a U.S. Attorney announced protection for DOGE employees, and it coincided with Meta’s public shift away from traditional content moderation toward “free expression.”

Musk replied with a heart emoji and quickly steered the conversation toward OpenAI, asking Zuckerberg if he was “open to the idea of bidding on the OpenAI IP with me and some others.” Zuckerberg requested a live discussion, and Musk said he would call the next day. Earlier filings in Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI reveal that Musk had indeed invited Zuckerberg to help acquire OpenAI, though Zuckerberg never formally joined the bid. Musk’s legal team later argued that these private exchanges should be excluded from the case, labeling them “tangential and prejudicial” and claiming they were intended only to inflame negative sentiment toward Musk because of his association with Zuckerberg.

In a separate filing, Musk’s attorneys objected to Altman’s lawyers probing Musk’s alleged ketamine use and his attendance at Burning Man in 2017, stating that such questions are “outlandish” and irrelevant to the dispute. A deposition transcript shows Musk denied taking “rhino ket” at the festival, and a judge later limited OpenAI’s ability to question him about Burning Man, barring inquiries into ketamine. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.

Read more: https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/mark-zuckerberg-offered-help-elon-211737040.html

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yahoo news | Staggering amount wiped from Mark Zuckerberg's fortune as Meta stock falls after...

Meta’s shares slumped nearly 5 percent on Friday, erasing more than $20 billion from Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth after the company suffered two consecutive courtroom defeats. The blows sent Meta’s stock down about 13 percent for the week and stripped roughly $119 billion from its market capitalization, knocking the Facebook and Instagram owner out of the top seven U.S. firms by market value for the first time since 2023. Zuckerberg, who holds roughly a 13 percent stake, saw his fortune fall to $182.5 billion – a $21 billion drop in a single day – making him the biggest loser on the Forbes Real‑Time Billionaires list.

The first verdict came from a New Mexico jury that found Meta liable for failing to protect children from sexual predators, imposing $375 million in civil penalties. A day later, a California jury concluded that Meta and Google’s YouTube deliberately engineered addictive app features that harmed a now‑20‑year‑old woman, awarding $4.2 million in damages. Both rulings center on the companies’ design choices that keep kids hooked on platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and they signal a potential “new era in internet litigation” that could open the floodgates for thousands of similar lawsuits.

Investors are nervous that these landmark cases could trigger a wave of litigation reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s legal battles, threatening further financial hits for Meta and its peers. The company, along with Google, has announced plans to appeal the decisions, but the pending lawsuits across federal and state courts — alongside a high‑profile case slated for June in California over addictive apps disrupting education — suggest mounting legal exposure for the social‑media sector. The broader implication is a shift away from the historic practice of shielding platforms from liability, as courts increasingly hold them accountable for designs that endanger young users.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/business/20b-erased-from-mark-zuckerbergs-fortune-meta-stock-falls-after-back-to-back-court-losses/

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yahoo news | Mark Zuckerberg has cut 25,000 jobs at Meta since 2022. Here’s what that says ab...

Meta has carried out a series of large‑scale layoffs since its first 11,000‑person cut in 2022, bringing total job losses to roughly 25,000 across several divisions. After the initial round, the company shed another 10,000 jobs and imposed a hiring freeze during Zuckerberg’s “year of efficiency” in 2023. More recent rounds include about 600 cuts in SuperIntelligence Labs, roughly 1,000 jobs in Reality Labs earlier this year, and a reported 700‑person reduction in the same unit this week. By early 2025, a further 5 % reduction—around 3,600 employees—was justified in an internal memo as a purge of “low performers,” even though many affected workers said they received no prior warning.

Experts say Zuckerberg’s tone has shifted from the conciliatory language he used in 2022 to a colder, business‑focused approach, creating an inconsistent leadership style that risks eroding employee trust. Business professor Haoying Xu notes that what began as a reluctant, one‑off measure has become a “norm,” potentially fueling quiet quitting and diminishing confidence in the CEO’s decision‑making. The pattern is especially stark given Meta’s massive bet on the metaverse—rebranding in 2021 and heavily funding Reality Labs—only to unwind those investments quickly when results lagged, a move that some, like Culture Partners’ chief strategy officer Jessica Kriegel, view as a pragmatic course correction.

The layoff trend reflects a broader shift in the tech industry, where companies are breaking the pre‑pandemic “psychological contract” that promised job security and abundant perks. As AI reshapes operations, firms are pushing for higher efficiency, tighter employee‑to‑manager ratios, and aggressive growth targets, such as Meta’s ambition to reach a $9 trillion market cap by 2031. To restore stability, analysts advise Zuckerberg to communicate business rationales transparently, maintain consistent priorities, and offer tangible benefits—like flexible work arrangements and robust training—to help employees feel secure and engaged despite the ongoing restructuring.

Read more: https://fortune.com/2026/03/27/mark-zuckerberg-meta-layoffs-metaverse-reality-labs-year-of-efficiency-tech-ai/

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The Big Tech Verdict Everyone Got Wrong: Social Media Addiction Trial |

"So, in order to understand this issue, you do have to break yourself out of the way that you have been manipulated. And the way that they manipulate you is they take the worst things you can imagine and they're like, "This bill is against those things."

And this works on Republicans all the time. [...] They're like, "Everything bad about your life, blame it on immigration. Everything
bad about your life, trans people in sports."

People on the left laugh, "Oh my gosh, how can Republicans fall for these narratives?"

This is one of those narratives that a lot of people are falling for."

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it's more about surveillance than actually protecting children

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/

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Wall Street Journal: Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him be CEO This is an MSN-syndicated version of the article and is not paywalled. “Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta Platforms, is building a CEO agent to help him do his job, according to a person familiar with the project. The agent, which is still in development, is currently helping Zuckerberg get information […]

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/26/meta-cuts-700-jobs-executives-921m-stock-options-xcxwbn/

Meta Cuts 700 Jobs While Handing Execs $921M Stock Plans

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Meta recorta 700 empleos y acelera su apuesta por la inteligencia artificial

Meta recorta 700 puestos de trabajo para acelerar su estrategia de IA.

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Los Ángeles.- El gigante tecnológico Meta despidió a unos 700 empleados como parte de un movimiento estratégico que busca acelerar la estrategia de la compañía orientada a la Inteligencia Artificial (IA), según informó este miércoles The New York Times.

Esta oleada de reducción de personal se produce 24 horas después de que la empresa presentara un nuevo y ambicioso plan de incentivos para sus altos ejecutivos que busca alcanzar una capitalización de mercado de nueve billones de dólares para 2031.

El programa incluye a seis líderes claves para retener el talento en la competitiva carrera de la IA, entre ellos, el director de Tecnología, Andrew Bosworth; el director de Producto, Chris Cox; el director de Operaciones, el español Javier Oliván; y la directora financiera, Susan Li.

El director ejecutivo de Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, ha defendido reiteradamente la necesidad de seguir invirtiendo en IA, un enfoque que coincide con el planteamiento de la compañía matriz de Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp por racionar los equipos y reemplazar a gran parte de la plantilla, como ya han hecho otras tecnológicas.

Los planes del profundo cambio que experimenta el gigante tecnológico se producen en medio de dos derrotas judiciales para la empresa que se han producido esta semana.

Un jurado de Los Ángeles declaró este miércoles culpables a Meta y YouTube de perjudicar la salud mental de menores en una histórica demanda sobre la adicción a las redes sociales y por la que tendrán que pagar una indemnización de tres millones de dólares.

Esta resolución se suma a la sentencia dictaminada ayer por un jurado de Nuevo México que también encontró culpable a Meta de ocultar información sobre deficiencias en sus plataformas y prácticas comerciales que facilitaban la explotación sexual infantil y fue condenado a una multa de 375 millones de dólares. –sn–

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