{"id":136484,"date":"2024-12-13T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T00:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136484"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T00:39:52","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-meta-donates-1m-to-trump-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136484","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta donates $1m to Trump fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has donated $1m (\u00a3786,000) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The tech giant&#8217;s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c87x98q8y08o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago<!-- --><\/a> resort in November, having sought to repair his and his firm&#8217;s relationship with Trump following the election.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Trump previously was highly critical of Mr Zuckerberg and Facebook &#8211; calling the platform &#8220;anti-Trump&#8221; in 2017.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Meta is not believed to have made similar donations to President Joe Biden&#8217;s  inaugural fund in 2020 or to Trump&#8217;s previous inaugural fund in 2016.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The company confirmed its million-dollar donation to the inaugural fund to several outlets on Wednesday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Inauguration funds are used to pay for events and activities when a new president takes office &#8211; some consider them an attempt to curry favour with a new administration.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The donation was confirmed by CBS, the BBC&#8217;s US media partner, on Wednesday, and was <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inaugural-fund-32a999c1\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">first reported<!-- --><\/a> by the Wall Street Journal.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The BBC has approached Meta for comment.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US president on 20 January.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Relations between Trump and Mr Zuckerberg historically have been far less cordial.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">They particularly soured when Facebook and Instagram suspended the former president&#8217;s accounts in 2021, after they said he praised those engaged in violence at the Capitol on 6 January.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Since then, Trump has waged a war of words against Meta &#8211; calling Facebook <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-68538754\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">an &#8220;enemy of the people&#8221; in March<!-- --><\/a>. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He said a law that would ban TikTok in the US unless sold off by its parent company, ByteDance, would unfairly benefit Facebook.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In August, Mr Zuckerberg told Republican lawmakers in a letter that <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czxlpjlgdzjo\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">he regretted bowing to pressure from the Biden administration<!-- --><\/a> to &#8220;censor&#8221; some Facebook and Instagram content during the coronavirus pandemic.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Trump wrote in a book published in September that Mr Zuckerberg would &#8220;spend the rest of his life in prison&#8221; if he tried to intervene in the 2024 election.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But the president-elect appears to have since softened his position.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He told a podcast in October it was &#8220;nice&#8221; Mr Zuckerberg was &#8220;staying out of the election&#8221;, and thanked him for a personal phone call after he faced an assassination attempt.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Still, Mr Zuckerberg isn&#8217;t nearly as close to Trump as fellow tech titan Elon Musk.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Tesla and X owner has been dubbed Trump&#8217;s &#8220;First Buddy&#8221; because of his extensive donations to his election campaign.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">That led to Mr Musk being placed in charge of a new <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpqd4vw0ejeo\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)<!-- --><\/a>.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">There has been no such rapprochement between Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg &#8211; although the cage fight between them that was once mooted <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-66494113\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">now appears to be off<!-- --><\/a>.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8j9e1x9z2xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has donated $1m (\u00a3786,000) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump. 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