Everyone's saying the same thing about Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with Donald Trump

Mark Zuckerberg's sudden gathering with Donald Trump successful Mar-a-Lago Wednesday  spawned a firestorm of speculation connected societal media.

Onlookers are already accusing the Meta brag of pandering to the president-elect, aft helium threatened to propulsion him successful jailhouse earlier this year.

The committedness for prosecution was aired successful anticipation of interference successful the then-looming election, which went overwhelmingly Trump's way.

Four years ago, the 40-year-old Facebook laminitis famously banned Trump, 78, from the level implicit claims the 2020 election was stolen.

That spawned several instances of censorship, starring Trump to overgarment Zuckerberg arsenic portion of a crippled against him to rig the race. 

He aboriginal vowed Zuckerberg would 'spend the remainder of his beingness successful prison' if helium did truthful this clip astir - mounting the proverbial array for the pre-Thanksgiving, post-election meal.

Since confirmed by Meta, the gathering itself remains a enigma - but rapidly gave mode to sermon online astir what whitethorn person occurred.

Most portrayed Zuckerberg arsenic utilizing the conscionable to sing for his supper, seeing what's astatine stake.

'Zuckerberg went to [M]ar-a-largo[sic]  to archer Trump helium has changed his ways and wants to enactment with Trump?' 1 X idiosyncratic wrote.

'Hell no[.] He needs to beryllium investigated for censorship and predetermination interference!'

'No, Trump should not wage [K]amala's debt, Trump should not pardon Hunter, and Trump should amusement nary mercy to Zuckerberg,' wrote another, referencing successful portion however Trump has teased paying of the reported $20 cardinal racked up by the run of Kamala Harris.

The tweet besides honed successful connected the national lawsuit surrounding President Joe Biden's lad Hunter, pleaded blameworthy successful September to a four-year strategy that saw him purposely circumvent $1.4 cardinal successful self-assessed national taxes owed from 2016 done 2019

The governmental scion besides owned up to different lawsuit of taxation evasion successful 2018, erstwhile helium filed mendacious returns. At his sentencing adjacent month, helium faces a max punishment of 17 years successful prison. 

He besides faces felony national firearms sentencing successful Delaware the precise aforesaid period publishable by up to 25 years - spurring speculation astir a last-minute pardon from his dad, who could, successful theory, commute immoderate prospective condemnation arsenic well, arsenic a amusement of mercy.

Leniency was not connected the caput of 1 X idiosyncratic observing the concern with Zuckerberg,  who restricted a communicative astir Biden's lad laptop during the 2020 predetermination based connected FBI misinformation warnings.

'So Mark Zuckerberg censored conservatives and Trump let’s[sic] this feline travel implicit to Mar-a-Lago to person dinner?' they wrote Thursday, earlier labeling Trump's determination to instrumentality successful the tech CEO arsenic 'a joke.'

'Seems similar a slap successful the look to his supporters,' they concluded, referring to Trump's fanbase.

'Zuckerberg realizes that helium backed the incorrect camp,' added another. 'Now helium is groveling connected his belly, slithering similar a snake! 

'Trump indispensable not spot Zuckerberg,' the account went connected to importune - calling Zuckerberg 'a just upwind friend.'

Others posted memes poking amusive astatine what galore framed arsenic a amusement of weakness from the Harvard-educated billionaire, whose estimated $200billion nett worthy has him safely astatine 4th connected Forbes' billionaire list.

Someone other sniped: [T]here’s not galore that’s going to forgive Mark Zuckerberg. He has messed with... MAGA 1 excessively galore times.

'We the radical don’t similar it erstwhile idiosyncratic messes with our President Trump,' helium concluded, paving the mode for personalities similar Laura Loomer - the Republican Florida Congressional nominee who mislaid to Democrat Lois Frankel successful 2020 - to measurement in.

Calling the meeting's greater connotations 'disturbing', she accused Zuckerberg of utilizing Facebook and Instagram to censor posts surrounding Trump's archetypal assassination effort earlier this year.

'As an American and a dice hard Trump supporter, I americium ne'er going to hide however Mark Zuckerberg censored the assassination effort pictures of President Trump and past programmed Facebook to fell and censor each mentions of the attempted assassination,' Loomer, 31, wrote. 

She added however it was 'very disturbing' that a fig with a past specified arsenic Zuckerberg was 'allowed' to person meal with the president-elect, arsenic a parade of progressive journalists and CEOs proceed to question their to buss the ring.

'Donald Trump was blessed with a occurrence that time successful Butler, and Zuckerberg wants to propulsion revisionist past truthful nary hint of the assassination effort tin beryllium seen connected Facebook and Instagram. That is EVIL.

'Doesn’t get much evil than that. I cannot enactment soundless astir that,' the far-right commentator concluded, calling Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan 'anti-American lunatics.

At different point, the right-winged influencer said the societal web main 'stole' her household photos erstwhile she was kicked disconnected Facebook for anti-Muslim rhetoric and conspiracy theories similar that the 9/11 attacks were an 'inside job' carried retired by the national government.

Back successful JUly, Meta Public Affairs Director Dani Lever confirmed instances of censorship from Facebook erstwhile it came to the assassination attempt, but revealed it had been an mistake that enactment the clamp connected posts amusement the now-iconic representation of Trump's fist raised successful the air.

"This was an error. This information cheque was initially applied to a doctored photograph showing the concealed work agents smiling, and successful immoderate cases our systems incorrectly applied that information cheque to the existent photo,' Lever wrote astatine the time.

'This has been fixed, and we apologize for the mistake.'

 Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Meta confirmed the meal betwixt Zuckerberg and Trump connected Wednesday, saying helium and different members of his squad had been invited to speech astir the incoming administration.

During the race, Zuckerberg notably did not connection immoderate endorsement - but helium did statement Trump's effect to the Butler assassination effort arsenic 'badass' erstwhile asked astir giving one.

'Seeing Donald Trump get up aft getting changeable successful the look and pump his fist successful the aerial with the American emblem is 1 of the astir badass things I've ever seen successful my life,' Zuckerberg, 40, said during an interrogation astatine Meta HQ successful Menlo Park, California, successful July.

'On immoderate level arsenic an American, it's similar hard to not get benignant of affectional astir that tone and that fight,' the Facebook laminitis added.

'And I deliberation that that's wherefore a batch of radical similar the guy.'   

He besides complained however elder Biden medication officials pressured Facebook to 'censor' definite COVID-19 contented during the pandemic - thing helium said helium regrets.

'We made immoderate choices that, with the payment of hindsight and caller information, we wouldn't marque today,' Zuckerberg said successful August.

'I consciousness powerfully that we should not compromise our contented standards owed to unit from immoderate medication successful either absorption - and we're acceptable to propulsion backmost if thing similar this happens again.'