The founder of the video game giant - which took Apple to court over anti-competitive practices in 2020 - believes some technology firms pick and choose which party they support in order to boost their dominance in the market and suggested they are trying to “vilify competition law”.
Sweeney penned on X: "After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors. (sic)”
His remarks come after US President-elect Donald Trump recruited Tesla and X-owner Elon Musk as the co-lead of his administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, while Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook and Google are among the companies donating $1 million to the politician’s inauguration fund.
Alarm bells recently rang after Zuckerberg announced plans to scrap independent fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram, explaining that the current approach is "too politically biased".
The billionaire businessman said in a statement: "We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the US…
"The fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they have created – especially in the US.
"Over the next couple of months, we’re going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system."
Zuckerberg intends to work more closely with the US government in a bid to protect freedom of expression.
He explained: "The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.
“Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there.
"Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.
"China has censored our apps from even working in the country.
"The only way we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US Government."
