If that manipulation runs contrary to the interests of the government, that corporation and its leadership are in for a bad day.
Imagine a world where Zuckerberg wasn't obviously some kind of early Boston Dynamics prototype assembled before the team responsible for the ethics subroutines got their CI/CD going.
When the FBI shows up and tells him to do something, he's going to do it. He can either enjoy the billionaire lifestyle and do as he's told, or suffer the rather predictable consequences. After all, there are well over five thousand federal crimes in the USC. Zuckerberg, along with everybody reading this, is definitely guilty of something. Just takes a bit of digging to figure out what.
Doesn't matter how much money you have or how great your lawyers are. If the government wants to squash you, they are going to squash you.
"The interests of the government" are not only malleable, but become highly ductile in the presence of large sums of money. Sure, at time T, the government may have decided that gazillionaire Zuck Markerberg may need to be taken down, but at time T', the government may have changed its mind (for reasons we can guess but likely never know).
Imagine a world where Zuckerberg wasn't obviously some kind of early Boston Dynamics prototype assembled before the team responsible for the ethics subroutines got their CI/CD going.
When the FBI shows up and tells him to do something, he's going to do it. He can either enjoy the billionaire lifestyle and do as he's told, or suffer the rather predictable consequences. After all, there are well over five thousand federal crimes in the USC. Zuckerberg, along with everybody reading this, is definitely guilty of something. Just takes a bit of digging to figure out what.
Doesn't matter how much money you have or how great your lawyers are. If the government wants to squash you, they are going to squash you.