Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen dropped bombshells on the popular Joe Rogan Experience about political persecution from financial regulators during the Biden years, spotlighting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a locus of weaponized financial regulation.
Zuckerberg said the CFPB was “looking into us” even though “we’re not a bank.” He speculated that the CFPB’s inquiries were part of a Biden administration attempt to jawbone Meta into censoring content on its platforms. Andreessen, in an earlier episode, accused the CFPB of “terrorizing anybody who tries to do anything in financial services” if the person is from a politically disfavored industry or expresses a viewpoint with which progressive politicians disagree.
