Kim Kardashian has lent her support to Mark Zuckerberg as he faced the wrath of the internet with his latest social media post.
The Facebook and Meta chief, 40, ruffled feathers when he posted a picture of himself on Monday wearing his company Meta's flagship augmented reality goggles, Ray-Ban Meta.
The world's second-richest man was also sporting a hoodie featuring the slogan “Kim is my lawyer”, which was featured on Kardashian’s original reality TV show Keeping Up With The Kardashians and was worn by various members of the Kardashian family, including her ex-husband Kanye West back in the day.
“The only appropriate hoodie,” Zuckerberg captioned the snap in which he also tagged Kardashian's mum Kris Jenner, 69, who has been part of Ray-Ban Meta glasses' advertising campaigns in the past.
While Zuckerberg regularly posts pictures in quirky outfits which tend to go down relatively well, the tide appears to have changed with several users taking to the comments to criticise Meta for changing its stance on its DEI initiatives following US President Donald Trump's inauguration.
“You sell out far easier than those glasses buds,” penned one angry person, with another remarking “'Sell out' should be the title of your sweatshirt.”
“Maybe Kim can get you out of those data lawsuits” added a third.
Kardashian meanwhile ignored the haters to declare: “Hahaha I love it!!!”
On January 7, Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be replacing its fact-checking systems on Facebook and Instagram with a “community notes” model similar to Elon Musk’s X.
He said that Meta’s fact-checking had led to “too many mistakes and too much censorship” and was “too politically biased.”
After Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Zuckerberg met with him at his Florida bolthole Mar-a-Lago and Meta donated $1 million to his inaugural fund alongside other tech giants. Zuckerberg also attended Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
Zuckerberg’s online thrasihing comes after Jesse Eisenberg, who once played Zuckerberg on the big screen, said he wanted to distance himself from him.
The actor and film-maker, 41, received an Oscar nomination for his role in the 2010 movie The Social Network, but 15 years on says he finds some of Zuckerberg’s recent actions “problematic”.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s “Today” last week, Eisenberg admitted that he hasn’t been following the tech giant’s “life trajectory, partly because I don’t want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that.”
