Zuck Around and Find Out: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's MAGA-masculinity Crisis

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Mark Zuckerberg has gone from Donald Trump’s enemies list to Mar-a-Lago guest, and enjoyed a prime seat at inauguration with his fellow tech titans. On this episode, host and Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones, along with executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone, trace Zuckerberg’s transformation of Meta alongside the Facebook cofounder's own style upgrade and desire for more “masculine energy” in the corporate world. How might Zuckerberg survive—and perhaps, even thrive—in a second Trump term?

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0:00.0	Today we're talking all about Mark Zuckerberg, and I am excited to play What's Our Headline.
0:06.2	And there's something actually, Michael, that you used a phrase in our discussions about this that gave me an idea, which is Mark Zuckerberg and the meta-maga makeover.
0:18.5	So that's my submission, but I'm ready to be trumped, as it were.
0:22.4	You know, all I have are a couple scribblings on the side of my paper. So.
0:26.6	But this is how headlines are bored. I know Claire is going to win this one, but, you know, I was
0:30.2	thinking something about Into the MAGAverse, something about our face, bro. But Claire, you have
0:35.5	an actual headline. I have two actual headlines. Okay, good. Let's do it.
0:38.3	Because Zuck rhymes with, you know what.
0:40.3	So, Zuck around and find out.
0:42.3	Mark Zuckerberg and Mehta's Maga masculinity crisis.
0:45.3	And Mark Zuckerberg's Bro Down, Grow Up, Glow Up for the Magasphere.
0:50.3	We do poetry here.
0:52.3	Yeah, those are, those are fully-flush headlines.
0:54.8	Those are not my scribblings on a piece of paper.
0:57.5	You can find me at the New York Post.
1:00.4	I like suck around and find out.
1:02.5	Yeah, that's pretty good.
1:03.6	And we will, won't we?
1:04.8	We will.
1:05.3	All of us will.
1:06.3	Thanks, Mark Zuckerberg.
1:11.2	Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair,
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