Facebook down

Zuck works with the deep state (Facebook is literally the perfect surveillance tool and having it be a private "social media" company gives the government plausible deniability - Zuck did get seed funding from the CIA after all), but he is not a part of it. They went after him too hard for not being censorious enough in the 2016 election to make me think he's really an active participant. Celebrity billionaires are more comparable to nobles - powerful to be sure, but not the decision-makers (Trump was an example of a lesser noble going rogue). The real power lies within the imperial court (which would be the nexus of technology, politics, military, intelligence communities, financial institutions, media, academia, pharmaceuticals, a couple of foreign powers, major philanthropic organizations, law enforcement (federally at least), and the demographic/familial/personal/financial connections they've produced. That is what people mean by the deep state.