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Mark Zuckerberg sweetens Meta’s $1M donation to Trump’s inaugural fund with a pair of smart glasses


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,

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. 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. 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.

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