Stanford law professor Mark Lemley has reportedly dropped the social media giant Meta as a client because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” according to Breitbart. Lemley apparently made the decision following the announcement of recent changes at the social media company, including reducing DEI initiatives and eliminating third-party fact-checkers to be replaced with the X-style of community notes. Lemley represented Meta in an ongoing case regarding the lawsuit against the company by comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors who claim that Meta is allegedly violating copyright laws by “training its Llama AI model on their written works.” According to Breitbart, “at the time, Meta’s legal team argued that the claims should fail because the authors could not prove that the AI-generated text closely resembled their original content.” In a post on LinkedIn on Monday, Lemley said that he “cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer.” While he shared that he does believe Meta is “on the right side in the generative AI copyright dispute,” Lemley said he does not want to “support a Twitter-like site run by a Musk wannabe,” thus he has also deactivated his Threads account. Zuckerberg’s recent changes showing favor of Musk’s style for what is arguably the most controversial feature of social media, fact-checking, seems to have upset a number of Meta users, including those who believe that fact-checkers are like firefighters. Recently, CNN analysts also expressed their outrage and concern over the company’s elimination of third-party factcheckers according to a Washington Free Beacon article. In their early January announcement, Meta stated, “When we launched our independent fact checking program in 2016, we were very clear that we didn’t want to be the arbiters of truth. We made what we thought was the best and most reasonable choice at the time, which was to hand that responsibility over to independent fact checking organizations.” “That’s not the way things played out, especially in the United States. Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives,” Meta continued, adding that “a program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor.” “We are now changing this approach. We will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program. We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see.” Mark Zuckerberg’s apparent resistance to baselessly attacking President-elect Donald Trump along with his parallel to Elon Musk, whom Trump named to co-lead the Department of Government Efficacy (DOGE), was also too much for Lemley. In a statement from Rhett Millsaps, managing partner of Lemley’s law firm Lex Lumina, he praised Lemley for his action stating, “Money can’t buy everyone. We’re proud to be a firm that doesn’t sell out our values. Sadly, it seems this is becoming a rarer and rarer quality in America today,” according to Breitbart. It appears that those who wish to remain highly critical of President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration are ridiculing those who have found common ground to stand on together. CNN reported, ex-Washington Post columnist, who also apparently sees herself as not a “sell out,” named her new publication The Contrarian to let everyone know that she is among those “not going with the herd,” meaning with the “billionaire types that have sought to ‘curry favor’ with the president-elect.”