Meta donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund as Zuckerberg works to mend relations with the incoming president
Meta donated $1 million to Donald Trump's inaugural fund as the social media giant takes steps to improve relations with the president-elect.
In 2020, after Facebook was criticized over Trump's violent remarks on the platform, Zuckerberg said he was "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump's divisive and incendiary rhetoric."
Trump was removed from Facebook and Instagram in 2021 for what Meta called praising "people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6." Meta reversed the decision two years later.
In 2021, Trump filed suit against Facebook, Google, then-Twitter, and the companies' respective CEOs, alleging they unlawfully censor him and other conservatives.
In August, Trump threatened that Zuckerberg would "spend the rest of his life in prison" if he tried to interfere in the 2024 US election.
But recently, Zuckerberg, who did not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, has been working to mend relations with Trump.
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