Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, a spokesperson for the social media giant confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday night.
This news was first published by the Wall Street Journal.
The move comes two weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled Went to Florida and dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
At the time, Trump adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News that Zuckerberg had “made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump's leadership.”
Trump was removed from facebook Following the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, it was determined that his posts had potentially encouraged the violence that occurred that day.
company restored his account As early as 2023, but with certain “guardrails”. In July, those restrictions Picked up by meta.
Trump has a total of 65 million followers on Facebook and Instagram.
In August, Zuckerberg were presented A letter to Congress claims the Biden administration in 2021 “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.” He described “government pressure as wrong” and said he would oppose any similar efforts in the future.
Silicon Valley is uneasy about what kind of treatment it might get from a second Trump administration, and the donation could be a sign of Zuckerberg's effort to ease those tensions.
Trump's Like Putting Brendan Carr, a prominent critic of big tech, at the helm of the Federal Communications Commission has potentially heightened those concerns.
CBS News has contacted the Trump transition team for comment on the donation.