Mark Zuckerberg cozied up to Trump at a White House dinner meeting
citing a Facebook insider. Also in attendance was Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member, Trump donor and Silicon Valley financier who backed Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker that doomed the site.
“As is normal for a CEO of a major U.S. company, Mark accepted an invitation to have dinner with the President and First Lady at the White House,” Facebook spokesperson told NBC in a statement via email. The dinner coincided with Zuckerberg’s October visit to the capital where he testified and faced a particularlyfrom Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , who has been a vocal critic of Facebook’s actions, or lack thereof, in the face of political disinformation.
And this could be one reason Trump wants to cozy up to Zuckerberg. Facebook recently made a controversial decision to allow politicians to lie on the platform by not enforcing fact-checking on political ads. Trump has already taken advantage of the loophole, as Judd Legum, when his campaign posted an ad with false information that former vice president Joe Biden “promised Ukraine $1 billion dollars if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company.
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