While campaigning for Donald Trump in October, Elon Musk claimed he could slash “at least $2 trillion” in government spending. Now that Musk has started laying the groundwork for his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, he’s not as confident.
I t feels like we’re in a new era now,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, as he announced sweeping changes to the firm’s social-media platforms in a video on January 7th. Two weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration,
Zuckerberg later became less vocally critical of Trump. Following the 2024 election, he donated $1 million to his inaugural committee and dined at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in late November, the Associated Press reported.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.
Mark Zuckerberg’s alliance with Donald Trump proves just how low he’ll go - ANALYSIS: The Facebook and Instagram boss has shown just how deep he’s willing to stoop for the benefit of his commercial empire — and just how little his last eight years of promises really meant,
The Meta CEO just announced a new content-moderation policy in a video that plays like an extremely high-profile friend request sent to incoming president Donald Trump. GQ columnist Chris Black wonders why anyone is surprised.
I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.
Donald Trump is set to be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday morning after he was found guilty on all counts at his hush money trial last year – just 10 days before his second inauguration to the presidency.
Don’t cry for loss of Facebook fact-checkers, but don’t be fooled by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his motivation either.
Efforts to differentiate between fact and fiction are going out of style. First X got rid of the hardy folks who had to sift through endless crap so that you, the consumer didn't have to.