{"id":1507523,"date":"2024-12-12T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1507523"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:55:00","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-meta-gives-eye-popping-1-million-to-trumps-inaugural-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-gives-eye-popping-1-million-to-trumps-inaugural-fund\/1507523\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta Gives Eye-Popping $1 Million To Trump&#8217;s Inaugural Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta Gives Eye-Popping $1 Million To Trump&#8217;s Inaugural Fund<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inaugural-fund-32a999c1?st=mnBuzz&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inaugural fund &#8211; something neither Meta nor Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg did for Trump&#8217;s inaugural fund in 2017 or President Biden&#8217;s in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The million-dollar donation comes two weeks after Zuckerberg dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in South Florida,\u00a0bringing the Facebook founder and the former president closer in what was once a fraught relationship.<\/p>\n<p>One person familiar with the donation said Zuckerberg&#8217;s team spoke with the inaugural fund before the Mar-a-Lago club dinner, adding that the social media billionaire has told\u00a0business leaders that he is\u00a0optimistic about a Trump presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At last month&#8217;s dinner,\u00a0Stephen Miller, appointed deputy chief of staff for Trump&#8217;s second term, told Fox News that\u00a0Zuckerberg had &#8220;made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump&#8217;s leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/106906507-1625435865667-zuckerbergsurfing.jpg?itok=ItBJUJZx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s choice of Brendan Carr\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/censorship-about-stopping-ideas-new-fcc-chairman-brendan-carr-prepares-battle\">lead the Federal Communications Commission<\/a> has frightened the federal government for their collusion\u00a0with Big Tech, partisan&#8217; fact checkers,&#8217; and an aptly named &#8216;advertising cartel&#8217;\u00a0to censor, de-monetize, and otherwise silence divergent opinions &#8211; particularly those which shed light on things like government malfeasance, bullshit wars, Covid origins, and cronyism.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Zuckerberg sent a letter to Congress claiming that the Biden administration in 2021 &#8220;repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid content, including humor and satire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was around the time Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-warns-zuckerberg-and-anyone-who-illegally-interferes-election-will-be-jailed-life\">warned<\/a> Zuckerberg and anyone else who illegally interfered in the election would be jailed for life if he won the presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for Zuckerberg, he&#8217;s now 40, and his change of politics must come with age&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill is often credited with saying that if &#8220;you&#8217;re not a liberal when you&#8217;re 25, you have no heart. If you&#8217;re not a conservative by the time you&#8217;re 35, you have no brain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 40, Zuck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 12\/12\/2024 &#8211; 06:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-gives-eye-popping-1-million-trumps-inaugural-fund\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-gives-eye-popping-1-million-trumps-inaugural-fund<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta Gives Eye-Popping $1 Million To Trump&#8217;s Inaugural Fund The Wall Street Journal reports that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1507524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6kaT","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/106906507-1625435865667-zuckerbergsurfing-EhadmC.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}