It is a national security issue.
By Mimi Montgomery
Mark Zuckerberg (click here) will be spending more time in D.C. after he paid $23 million in cash for a home in the tony Woodland Normanstone neighborhood, Politico reports.
Why it matters: The purchase indicates a heightened interest in D.C. from the private sector, with bigwig CEOs seeing a Beltway property as a "personal embassy" from which they can court the Trump administration, Politico's Michael Schaffer writes.
The big picture: Zuckerberg is one of several tech titans to buy D.C. digs — a cohort that featured prominently in President Trump's latest inauguration....
Mark Zuckerberg (click here) will be spending more time in D.C. after he paid $23 million in cash for a home in the tony Woodland Normanstone neighborhood, Politico reports.
Why it matters: The purchase indicates a heightened interest in D.C. from the private sector, with bigwig CEOs seeing a Beltway property as a "personal embassy" from which they can court the Trump administration, Politico's Michael Schaffer writes.
The big picture: Zuckerberg is one of several tech titans to buy D.C. digs — a cohort that featured prominently in President Trump's latest inauguration....
October 22, 2025
From Facebook
Meanwhile, the company has been on a massive hiring spree, poaching top talent from OpenAI and others with compensation packages reaching hundreds of millions.
Meta didn't have to do this.
They posted $62 billion in net profit in 2024.
Layoffs come with a massive cost.
They should be a LAST resort for companies.
For many people, especially those on visas, it’s not just a job loss.
It’s a life upheaval.
Layoffs like these are short-sighted.
Meta’s mission is to “build community and bring the world closer together.”
You don’t build community by cutting people loose.
You don’t bring the world closer together by laying off 600 people in one of the most profitable years in company history.
