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Tag: First Amendment abroad
MAGA in the Desert? Legal and Policy Dimensions of U.S. CEO Engagement with Authoritarian Investment Forums
In a rapidly globalizing financial environment, the participation of leading U.S. CEOs in the 2025 Saudi Arabian investment forum — dubbed by critics as "MAGA in the Desert"—raises urgent questions about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and democratic accountability. As figures such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink prepare to attend the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh, their decision has sparked a firestorm of debate across political and legal circles in the United States. Central to this debate are competing interpretations of fiduciary duty, corporate ethics, foreign policy alignment, and the First Amendment’s boundaries with international expression.