Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pulling off a lobbying-public relations combo move by gifting President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund $1 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The money came from Meta, to be clear, but Zuckerberg sweetened the gift further — while doing great marketing — by sending Trump a pair of Meta’s smart glasses, too.
It’s a paltry amount compared to the nearly $270 million that Big Tech competitor Elon Musk donated to the America PAC fund, which campaigned for Trump, but it’s still a lot of money.
Meta’s donation comes as other tech executives attempt to play nice with the incoming Republican party. Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, who has also borne Trump’s ire, blocked his newspaper, The Washington Post, from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid. He even congratulated Trump on X for his “decisive victory” in the U.S. elections.
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The money came from Meta, to be clear, but Zuckerberg sweetened the gift further — while doing great marketing — by sending Trump a pair of Meta’s smart glasses, too.
It’s a paltry amount compared to the nearly $270 million that Big Tech competitor Elon Musk donated to the America PAC fund, which campaigned for Trump, but it’s still a lot of money.
Meta’s donation comes as other tech executives attempt to play nice with the incoming Republican party. Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, who has also borne Trump’s ire, blocked his newspaper, The Washington Post, from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid. He even congratulated Trump on X for his “decisive victory” in the U.S. elections.
Image Credits: Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images
#TechCrunch #technews #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #DonaldTrump #bigtech
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pulling off a lobbying-public relations combo move by gifting President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund $1 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The money came from Meta, to be clear, but Zuckerberg sweetened the gift further — while doing great marketing — by sending Trump a pair of Meta’s smart glasses, too.
It’s a paltry amount compared to the nearly $270 million that Big Tech competitor Elon Musk donated to the America PAC fund, which campaigned for Trump, but it’s still a lot of money.
Meta’s donation comes as other tech executives attempt to play nice with the incoming Republican party. Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, who has also borne Trump’s ire, blocked his newspaper, The Washington Post, from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid. He even congratulated Trump on X for his “decisive victory” in the U.S. elections.
Image Credits: Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images
#TechCrunch #technews #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #DonaldTrump #bigtech
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