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Miles Archer

(24,338 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 08:25 AM Aug 2025

Zuckerberg enlists 2020 Election Denier, Anti-DEI MAGAt to "root out bias" and settle lawsuit

https://www.theverge.com/news/757537/meta-robby-starbuck-conservative-activist-ai-bias-advisor

Meta hires anti-diversity activist Robby Starbuck as AI advisor to settle lawsuit

Starbuck, who has pressured companies into axing DEI policies, will address ‘ideological and political bias.’

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck will serve as an advisor at Meta to address “ideological and political bias” within the company’s AI chatbot, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The move comes as part of a settlement Meta reached with Starbuck, who filed a lawsuit claiming Meta AI wrongly stated he was involved in the January 6th Capitol riot.

Starbuck has waged public pressure campaigns against companies that have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, with companies like Tractor Supply, John Deere, and Harley-Davidson dropping their DEI efforts as a result. According to a lawsuit filed in April, Starbuck claims he discovered Meta AI’s false output after a Harley-Davidson dealer published a screenshot from Meta’s AI chatbot linking Starbuck to the Capitol riot and QAnon.

Now, following President Donald Trump’s executive order to make AI less “woke,” Starbuck will advise Meta on bias. “Since engaging on these important issues with Robby, Meta has made tremendous strides to improve the accuracy of Meta AI and mitigate ideological and political bias,” Meta and Starbuck said in a statement to the WSJ.
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During an interview with CNBC, Starbuck declined to say whether Meta paid him to resolve the lawsuit. “I’m one person, but this could cause a lot of problems across the entire industry when it comes to elections and political bias, and we wanted to be leaders in solving this problem,” Starbuck said during the interview. Earlier this year, Meta paid $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the suspensions of his accounts.
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Zuckerberg enlists 2020 Election Denier, Anti-DEI MAGAt to "root out bias" and settle lawsuit (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2025 OP
So glad I deleted my FB account after the election Chasstev365 Aug 2025 #1
The tech bros have revealed themselves newdeal2 Aug 2025 #2

newdeal2

(5,614 posts)
2. The tech bros have revealed themselves
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 08:46 AM
Aug 2025

Almost all of the major CEOs and founders have turned into pandering and whiny conservatives.

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