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Meta donates $1M to Trump's inaugural fund after Zuckerberg Mar-a-Lago meeting


The former president threatened the Meta CEO with possible “life in prison” during the campaign.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, said Thursday it had donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund. Over the next four years, Trump’s administration will determine federal policy in a wide variety of areas that are important to Meta and other tech companies, including regulation of artificial intelligence and antitrust enforcement. One Meta board member, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, told the Free Press website this week that he has spent about half his time since the Nov. 5 election at Mar-a-Lago helping with the transition.

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