Do Svidaniya It turns out users aren’t the only ones fleeing Meta. In the midst of a crucial AI-intellectual-property case, Meta’s top corporate council Mark Lemley has announced he “fired Meta as a client” due to “Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s descent into toxic masculinity and neo-Nazi madness.” In an exclusive interview with Wired, the well-renowned copyright lawyer unloaded on the company and the cultural moment it’s leaning into. “I am very troubled by the direction in which the country is going,” Lemley said. “I am particularly troubled that a number of folks in the tech industry seem to be willing to go along with it, no matter how extreme it gets.” Though he’s never talked with Zuckerberg face-to-face, Lemley thinks both Musk and the Meta CEO “have been particularly egregious in their behavior.” As Zuckerberg sheds his old liberal skin to embrace the new world order, critics have argued that he risks ostracizing Meta users in exchange for his newfound political favor. Litigating the Future And as Zuckerberg and Meta lurch right, it’s important to remember that their institutional power didn’t spring up overnight. Split with the social giant notwithstanding, Langley goes on to explain that he still thinks that Meta is in the right in its most recent copyright dispute — a debate over whether the $1.59 trillion Meta should be allowed to scrape copywritten material for AI training without consent. “The strongest arguments are the ones where the output of a work ends up being substantially similar to a…Meta's Top AI Lawyer Quits in Disgust