Although Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg might not have a department to lead like Elon Musk, he is reportedly nonetheless excited by serving to form the Trump administration’s new tech insurance policies.
Zuckerberg “could be very eager to play an lively function within the debates that any administration must have about sustaining America’s management within the technological sphere,” mentioned Meta’s President of International Affairs Nick Clegg, per The Verge. The conversations between Trump and Zuckerberg “are clearly pretty excessive degree,” he added with out going into specifics.
Zuckerberg had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago final week at Trump’s invitation, a transfer that Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller mentioned indicated Zuckerberg’s willingness to work with Trump.
“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his need to be a supporter of, and a participant in, this modification we’re seeing,” Miller told Fox News final week.
Mark Zuckerberg. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos
Zuckerberg didn’t endorse Trump earlier than the election, although he did post on Threads, an app he owns, that he was “praying for a fast restoration” after the assassination try on the President-elect in July. After Trump’s win, Zuckerberg prolonged his congratulations.
“Wanting ahead to working with you and your administration,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Threads on November 6.
The connection between Trump and Zuckerberg hasn’t at all times been cordial or supportive.
Trump wrote in his book “Save America,” which got here out on September 3, that Zuckerberg plotted in opposition to him within the 2020 election. Trump warned that he was watching Zuckerberg “intently” and if Zuckerberg did “something unlawful” within the 2024 presidential election, he would go to jail.
Zuckerberg is the third richest individual on the planet on the time of writing with a web price of $217 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
