{"id":193761,"date":"2024-12-12T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-donates-1m-to-trump-fund\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:57:45","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-meta-donates-1m-to-trump-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-donates-1m-to-trump-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1m to Trump fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta has donated $1m to a inauguration fund for Donald Trump, in another sign of tech giant’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, attempting to build bridges with the president-elect.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously been highly critical of Mr Zuckerberg and Facebook – calling the platform “anti-Trump” in 2017.<\/p>\n

But the pair dined at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago<\/a> resort in November, a meeting Mr Zuckerberg afterwards described himself as “grateful” for.<\/p>\n

Inauguration funds are used to pay for events and activities when a new president takes office – some consider them an attempt to curry favour with a new administration.<\/p>\n

Meta is not believed to have made similar donations to President Joe Biden’s inaugural fund in 2020 or Trump’s previous such fund in 2016.<\/p>\n

The donation was confirmed by CBS, the BBC’s US media partner, on Wednesday, and was first reported<\/a> by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

The BBC has approached Meta for comment.<\/p>\n

Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US president on 20 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Relations between Trump and Mr Zuckerberg have historically been far less cordial.<\/p>\n

They particularly soured when Facebook and Instagram suspended the former president’s accounts in 2021, after they said he praised those engaged in violence at the Capitol on 6 January.<\/p>\n

Since then, Trump has waged a war of words against Meta – calling Facebook an “enemy of the people” in March<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He said a law that would see TikTok banned in the US unless sold off by its parent company ByteDance would unfairly benefit Facebook.<\/p>\n

In August, Mr Zuckerberg told Republican lawmakers in a letter that he regretted bowing to pressure from the Biden administration<\/a> to “censor” some Facebook and Instagram content during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Trump wrote in a book published in September that Mr Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he tried to intervene in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

But the president-elect appears to have since softened his position.<\/p>\n

He told a podcast in October it was “nice” Mr Zuckerberg was “staying out of the election”, and thanked him for a personal phone call after he faced an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n

Still, Mr Zuckerberg remains far less close to Trump than fellow tech titan Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

The Tesla and X owner has been dubbed Trump’s “First Buddy” because of his extensive donations to his election campaign.<\/p>\n

That has led to Mr Musk being placed in charge of a new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There has been no such rapprochement between Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg – although the cage fight between them that was once mooted now appears to be off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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