India, June 21 -- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's growing closeness with the Trump administration and his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast left his employees and coworkers horrified and feeling betrayed, a report by the Financial Times said.

Forty-five anonymous people who know or have worked with Zuckerberg told the news outlet that his apparent transformation into "MAGA Mark," as some at the company have begun calling him, has been a radical makeover.

"We are, they say, witnessing a Revenge of the Nerds-style midlife crisis. For Zuckerberg to so theatrically align himself with the Maga movement and the "manosphere", a constellation of anti-woke, alpha male influencers, seemed like a total break from his image as a supporter of social just...