Zuckerberg's Pivot Toward Trump Raises Questions About Endgame
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin writes about what she and colleague Kurt Wagner found in an in-depth examination of Mark Zuckerberg's turn to the political right.
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