Ft Tech Tonic

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has undergone a transformation, both physical and political. The skinny teenager who founded Facebook in his dorm room is now a muscular jiu-jitsu enthusiast who’s called US President Donald Trump a “badass” and wants to see more “masculine energy” in the workplace. Is this all an act? Is Zuckerberg doing whatever it takes to ingratiate himself with the Trump administration and ensure that Meta emerges a winner in the AI race? Or has “Maga Mark” been the real Mark Zuckerberg all along? Murad Ahmed speaks to Hannah Murphy, the FT’s technology correspondent in San Francisco, and to Katie Harbath, a former Facebook executive under Zuckerberg and now CEO of Anchor Change.Free to read:How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawlerHow Joel Kaplan became Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted political fixerOpenAI says Meta is trying to poach staff with $100mn sign-on offersTech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon ValleyThis season of Tech Tonic is p