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Zuckerberg Caught in Revealing Hot Mic Moment During White House Dinner


After Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that Meta would invest $600 billion by 2028, the CEO confessed to the president that he 'wasn't sure what number [Trump] wanted to go with.'

It's not unusual for tech company CEOs to make the journey to Washington, DC, and announce billion-dollar investments to curry favor with politicians in power. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg perhaps had that number on his mind this week when he joined his fellow Silicon Valley heavy hitters at the White House for a dinner with President Trump. Trump says he's cutting red tape on electrical permits to make sure tech companies get what they need, while communities across the US are protesting the rapid growth of data centers near their homes, The Washington Post reports.

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