In the weeks after the re-election of Donald Trump, the bosses of America’s tech giants worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the returning president, congratulating him publicly and dutifully turning up to his inauguration. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, gushed that it was nice to have an administration that was “proud" of America’s tech champions. There was good reason for the obsequiousness. During the campaign Mr Trump referred to Meta as an “enemy of the people". Many in his MAGA movement have accused America’s tech giants of censoring right-wing views. In 2021 J.D. Vance, now Mr Trump’s vice-president, called...