A couple years ago, Donald Trump was banned from Facebook, and just a few months ago, he was threatening to toss Mark Zuckerberg in jail. But that was then, and these days, the two seem to be closer to achieving a moment of Pax Meta—particularly after Zuckerberg extended a significant olive branch to Trump this week by dumping the company’s fact-checking program and some of its diversity initiatives. Zuckerberg’s effort to forge an armistice with Trump is bringing sweeping changes to his company, and I expect more will likely come. For instance, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Zuckerberg shutter Meta’s Oversight Board, the company’s ombudsman-type organization offering recommendations on what Meta should do to fix perceived problems. The board was created around the same time Meta bolstered its fact-checking program, and both initiatives were in response to post-2016, anti-Trump sentiment. Zuckerberg’s peace campaign could affect more than just Meta, I think. It could have ramifications for TikTok, too. Trump has indicated he’s interested in finding a way for TikTok to avoid a U.S. ban because he doesn’t want Meta strengthened. He even made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to persuade it to delay the deadline for TikTok to find a new owner or be banned. But if Trump and Zuckerberg are on better terms now, Trump may have less interest in helping TikTok stick around. It’s a real “the enemy of my frenemy is no frenemy to me” situation. Let’s take a step back and consider an even broader industrywide perspective. Zuckerberg’s rightward shift reflects a change across Silicon Valley. Other tech firms will inevitably make similar changes to curry favor with Trump, and that jockeying for position will affect more than just the companies making those alterations, as we may witness with TikTok and Trump https://www.theinformatio.. #The Information