'I Fired Meta...' Facebook's Lawyer On Mark Zuckerberg's 'Neo Nazi Madness' - Full Post

Mark Lemley, a lawyer representing Meta in an intellectual property lawsuit said that he has dropped Meta as a client over Mark Zuckerberg's decision to scrap fact-checking on his social media platforms.

Lemley, who is also a professor at Stanford University, claimed that the Meta chief has taken to "toxic masculinity and neo-Nazi madness."

"I have fired Meta as a client," the professor wrote on his LinkedIn post.

He added that he has deactivated his Threads account. "Bluesky is an outstanding alternative to Twitter, and the last thing I need is to support a Twitter-like site run by a Musk wannabe," he wrote.

"I will no longer buy anything from ads I see on Facebook or Instagram. Their algorithm has my number, and I have regularly purchased things they show me. But in the future, even if I want something, I will go separately to the website to make sure Facebook doesn't get any credit for the purchase," he added.

Bluesky is a social media platform that has come up as a good alternative for X for left-leaning internet users in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump 's election victory.

Lemly also pointed to a series of policy changes as well as public statements by Zuckerberg as catalysts for his decision.

A week ago, Zuckerberg had announced that he was ending Meta's partnership with all third-party fact-checkers.

Additionally, Meta's decision to scale back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives is a move that is aimed at aligning with Trump's incoming administration.

In his appearance at the Joe Rogan podcast, Zuckerberg expressed his disappointment in the fact that corporate culture has moved away from "masculine energy."

Lemley has also ridiculed the remark in a Sunday post, writing, "Oh yeah, that's the problem with tech companies - not enough testosterone," as cited in a NYPost report.