Just weeks after a highly publicized meeting, it was revealed that Mark Zuckerberg could kiss the ring and gift Donald Trump’s inaugural fund $1 million.
Zuckerberg’s sudden meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in late November sparked a storm of speculation on social media.
The donation is not only a change from past relationships between Zuckerberg and Trump, it is a complete change in policy.
Meta did not donate to either the 2017 Trump inaugural fund or the 2021 Joe Biden affair.
Viewers are already accusing Meta’s boss of pandering to the president-elect, after he threatened to jail him earlier this year.
The donation comes on behalf of Meta Platforms, who confirmed the gift to WSJ Wednesday night.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Trump-Vance transition team for comment.
The reaction on social media suggested that everyone from MAGA fans to liberals knew that Zuckerberg had finally taken a knee to Trump.
Just weeks after a highly publicized meeting, it was revealed that Mark Zuckerberg will donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund.
Zuckerberg’s sudden meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in late November sparked a storm of speculation on social media.
‘Kiss the Ring… The first to turn around gets the best deal. “Funny to see, first he spent 400,000,000 to keep him out, now he thinks a million will absolve him,” wrote one Trump supporter.
‘Are we surprised? “These CEOs need to play ball if they don’t want to deal with the child that is Trump,” added one liberal.
One referenced Trump suggesting he would jail Master Meta: ‘Zuckerberg had an epiphany that made him realize it was better to “kiss the ring” to avoid prosecution. The leopard does not change its spots!’
‘Mark Zuckerberg has it all wrong among social media techies. Some guy donated $450 million to get Joe Biden elected, then turns around and donates $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. “Mark is a snake and I’ll be a little disappointed if Trump brings him into the loop,” another Trump supporter wrote.
Zuckerberg lobbied the incoming administration between him and his staff during a two-day period at Mar-a-Lago after Thanksgiving, before which his team revealed they would donate the inaugural fund.
Joel Kaplan and Kevin Martin, two of the company’s top policy executives, met with incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Zuckerberg did everything from meetings with Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller to a demo of the company’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses, which he also gifted to the president-elect.
It seems there has been a complete repair in relations between the inventor of Facebook and the president-elect.
Four years ago, the 40-year-old kicked Trump, 78, off the platform for claiming the 2020 election was stolen.
That led to several cases of censorship, leading Trump to paint Zuckerberg as part of a plot against him to rig the race.
He later vowed that Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it this time, setting the proverbial table for the pre-Thanksgiving and post-election meal.
In July, Meta Public Affairs Director Dani Lever confirmed cases of censorship by Facebook regarding the attempted murder, but revealed that it had been a mistake that put a stop to posts showing the now iconic image. of Trump’s fist raised in the air. .
‘This was a mistake. “This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing smiling Secret Service agents, and in some cases, our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the actual photo,” Lever wrote at the time.
The donation is not only a change from past relationships between Zuckerberg and Trump, it is a complete change in policy. Meta did not donate to either the 2017 Trump inaugural fund or the 2021 Joe Biden affair.
“This has been resolved and we apologize for the error.”
During the race, Zuckerberg did not offer any endorsement, but called Trump’s response to Butler’s assassination attempt “rude” when asked if he could give one.
“Seeing Donald Trump stand up after being shot in the face and raise his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the rudest things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg, 40, said during an interview. in Meta. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, in July.
“On some level, as an American, it’s hard not to be moved by that spirit and that fight,” the Facebook founder added.
“And I think that’s why a lot of people like the guy.”
He also complained about how senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” certain COVID-19 content during the pandemic, something he said he regrets.
“We made some decisions that, in hindsight and with new information, we wouldn’t make today,” Zuckerberg said in August.
“I firmly believe that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in any direction, and we are ready to push back if something like this happens again.”
Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the Biden administration was “wrong” to require Facebook to censor what they considered “COVID misinformation” during the pandemic.
Zuckerberg also said Meta would not repeat what it did in 2020, funding nonprofits to fund local election efforts, which Republicans criticized as ‘Zuckerbucks’ aimed at helping liberals.
He and his wife Priscilla Chan donated nearly $420 million to nonprofit organizations that assisted in the administration and infrastructure of the 2020 elections and heavily favored Democratic counties.
Zuckerberg, 37, and Chan, 36, donated $419.5 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), which, according to the report, They were delivered with specific conditions.
Using the grants, both CTCL and CEIR sent funds to local governments to implement administrative practices, voting methods, data sharing agreements, and outreach programs for the 2020 elections.
The analysis shows that Biden’s winning counties were three times more likely to get funding from the organizations than Trump’s, and Democrats reportedly received a significant boost in key swing states by promoting practices they have typically favored. your vote count, such as voting by mail. in the vote.