Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on September 25, 2024.
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meta platform The company has donated $1 million to President-elect Trump’s first fund, a company spokesman told Reuters in an emailed response.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said the donation was contrary to past practices by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.
Zuckerberg declined to endorse either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in this year’s election in a media interview before Biden resigned as the Democratic nominee and Kamala Harris took over.
However, the billionaire CEO added that Trump’s response to the July 13 assassination attempt, calling it “one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life,” was his latest move to attract conservative users One of the attempts.
Zuckerberg met with Trump after the election in late November, according to the New York Times, which the newspaper described as the latest attempt by the Meta boss to build a positive rapport with Trump.
After the 2020 presidential election, the Meta relationship between Trump and Zuckerberg was tense.
The president-elect accused Meta of suppressing content that could hurt Biden in the 2020 election and criticized Zuckerberg for donating money to support election infrastructure.
Meta suspended Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for about two years after the Capitol riots in January 2021.
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