Meta is cracking down on internal dissent over CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s overtures to President Donald Trump — telling staffers that criticizing the billionaire or the company could harm their performance evaluations,

Zuckerberg also spoke about the increasing pressure on tech companies from stricter content regulation. "The point is, there are places around the world that just have different values that go against our free expression values and want us to crack down and ban way more stuff than I think a lot of people would believe would be the right thing to do.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is leveraging his relationship with President Donald Trump to challenge Apple amid an ongoing tech rivalry. Sources familiar with the matter say Zuckerberg hopes that Meta’s strengthened ties with the White House will shift regulatory scrutiny away from his company and onto Apple.

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg’s open effort to curry favor with President Donald Trump has rattled employees, and the company is censoring their criticism internally, according to CNBC. Quoting unnamed “people familiar with the matter,