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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had dinner with US President-elect Donald Trump at the Republican's Mar-a-Lago estate, the tech giant has confirmed.

Multiple outlets spotted Zuckerberg, who controls Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, at Trump’s Florida resort, the headquarters of the incoming administration. A Meta spokesperson acknowledged that Zuckerberg and the president-elect had dinner together on Wednesday.

“Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming administration,” Meta said in a statement. “It’s an important time for the future of American innovation.”

Citing anonymous sources, the New York Times said that the meeting was initiated by Zuckerberg, apparently backtracking on his previous move to censor Trump and fund the Democrats in 2020. The exact subject of their dinner conversation has not been revealed.

“We do not comment on reports of private meetings that did or did not occur,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said initially. Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller later confirmed the dinner, however.

Mark, obviously, has his own interest, and he has his own company and he has his own agenda,” Miller told Fox News on Wednesday evening. “But he’s made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump's leadership.”

Zuckerberg had banned Trump from Facebook and Instagram in 2021, citing allegations that the then-US president had played a role in inciting the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. The unrest followed protests over the 2020 election, which the Republican officially lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

During the 2020 campaign, Zuckerberg had donated $400 million to various institutions in majority-Democrat areas, ostensibly to promote easier voting and democracy.

The “Zuckerbucks,” as they became known, facilitated what Time magazine described as the “fortification” of the 2020 vote in favor of Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris.

This time around, however, Trump warned that “Zuckerbucks” would be prosecuted as a form of election meddling. By that point, Zuckerberg had already praised Trump’s “badass” response during an attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania, and pledged stay out of the election. By October, Trump was saying in interviews that he liked Zuckerberg “much better now.”

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg’s social media rival Elon Musk has become Trump’s closest adviser, with some media outlets dubbing him “first buddy.” Musk bought Twitter (now X) in 2022 and reversed multiple bans that the previous management had imposed following pressure from the US government, including the ban on Trump's account.

He has been tapped to run a temporary outfit called the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) along with Vivek Ramaswamy, with a mission to drastically slash US bureaucracy.

https://www.rt.com/news/608358-meta-zuckerberg-trump-dinner/

 

 

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smart glasses....

Quick: You’re a billionaire tech CEO with arguably one of the biggest megaphones in the world. You’ve had an up-and-down relationship with the incoming president of the United States who, among other things, has threatened to send you to prison for life. Do you (a) use your platform to warn against said president-elect‘s authoritarian tendencies and use your considerable influence to strengthen organizations fighting to uphold democracy, (b) keep your head down and hope for the best, or (c) whip out the company checkbook and make it clear you’re prepared to spend the next four years kissing ass like you’ve never kissed ass before? If you’re Mark Zuckerberg, the answer is apparently a resounding (c).

The Wall Street Journal reports that Zuckerberg’s Meta has donated a cool $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, the latest effort by the tech CEO to “bolster his once-fraught relationship with the incoming president.” To be clear, Meta and Zuckerberg do not regularly give out political donations of this kind; according to the Journal, neither Zuckerberg nor the company donated to Trump’s first inaugural fund or to Joe Biden’s fund in 2021. Meanwhile, “federal campaign-finance reports show Zuckerberg has supported congressional candidates in both parties over the years and has largely stayed out of presidential races.”

But this time around things are different. And by different, we mean that some of the richest people in the United States of America have decided that the best way to approach Trump and the threat he poses to their companies, their freedom, or both is to kiss the ring. In addition to the $1 million donation, Zuckerberg—whom Trump has threatened with prison time on at least two occasions—visited Mar-a-Lago last month to dine with the incoming president; before the dinner, Zuckerberg, per the Journal, “did a private demonstration for Trump of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, which he gifted to the president-elect,” according to people familiar with the matter. After Trump won the election, the Meta CEO congratulated him on social media, and said he was looking forward to working together.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-1-million-to-trump-inauguration-after-trump-threatens-zuckerberg-with-life-in-prison

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME YOURSELF.