Senator Markwayne Mullin told right-wing commentator Benny Johnson on an episode of The Benny Show Thursday that Zuckerberg had begun speaking regularly with the president-elect. “Mark met with President Trump the day before he announced that they were going to change the way they do censorship, essentially,” Mullin said.

The company severely altered its social media moderation policies, including the handling of anti-LGBTQ speech. Now, Mark Zuckerberg went on the Joe Rogan podcast, where he defended Meta’s new policies and gave his views on other topics in a three-hour interview.

Zuckerberg has called on Trump to protect US companies from EU fines – following Meta's moderation policy reversal last week.