This is going to be a big year,” said Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his newfound chumminess with the White House and host of technical AI advances.
Stephen Miller told Zuckerberg that the billionaire mogul had “an opportunity to help reform America, but it would be on Trump’s terms.”
On the company’s earnings call, Meta’s CEO shared his thoughts on the company’s relationship with governments.
Trump’s aides and allies aren’t ready to buy the Facebook chief’s right-wing conversion. “He can't just snap his fingers and make the past not happen”
In Trump’s first term, Meta quietly introduced a slew of Republican-friendly changes. But led by Joel Kaplan, the company is done playing both sides and is going all-in on MAGA.
Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a candidate.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads today.
“Never once have I followed any Trump or White House pages ... up following Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg attended the inauguration and some surrounding events.
“Those accounts are managed by the White House so with a new administration ... Earlier this month, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta was ending fact-checking in the US because it ...
Shortly after Trump was sworn as president, Facebook users reported their accounts were forced to automatically follow him. Not exactly.
In the days since Donald Trump assumed office, many people online have begun expressing alarm to find they were unwittingly following Trump on Instagram and Facebook.
Meta agreed to a $25 million settlement over a 2021 lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against Meta for suspending his accounts after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news, and Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the settlement to The Verge.