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For a corporation in the predicament of Meta this makes perfect commercial sense, even if it does violence to previously expressed sentiments. This is not an example of a company suddenly acting irrationally, but of a company rationally responding to one political development so as to facilitate defeating a regulatory challenge. And it is not the only tactic serving this broader commercial strategy. The leaders of many tech companies have every interest in promoting the new US government and in weakening resolve in the EU. Member states with leaders sympathetic to Trump, such as Hungary and Italy, are being courted alike so that EU policy can be weakened from the inside. The tech giants are adopting this robust strategy not because they are strong — they know that, like X in Brazil, they cannot take on any determined government or legal system in a significant market and win. They are doing this because they know they are weak, and that they need allies. Their business model depends upon it.