Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at the MetaConnect annual event held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, USA on September 25, 2024.
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meta platform A company spokesperson told Reuters in an email that the company has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said the donation was a departure from past practice by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Mehta.
In a media interview before Biden withdrew as the Democratic nominee and was replaced by Kamala Harris, Zuckerberg said he supported both Donald Trump and Joe Biden in this year’s election. had refused to do so.
But among other recent attempts to appeal to conservative users, the billionaire CEO called President Trump’s reaction to the July 13 assassination attempt “one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life.” It was supplemented as “one”.
Zuckerberg met with Trump after the election in late November, according to the New York Times, which said the meeting was the latest attempt by the meta boss to forge a positive relationship with Trump. It is said that it was.
Trump and Zuckerberg’s Mehta had a strained relationship in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
The president-elect accused Mr. Mehta of suppressing content that would damage Mr. Biden in the 2020 election, and also criticized Mr. Zuckerberg’s donations to strengthen election infrastructure.
Mehta suspended President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for about two years following the January 2021 Capitol riot.
