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Though Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may no longer have a department to lead treasure Elon Musk, he’s reportedly detached interested in helping shape the Trump administration’s unique tech policies.
Zuckerberg “is very keen to play an active role in the debates that any administration needs to have about maintaining America’s leadership in the technological sphere,” said Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg, per The Verge. The conversations between Trump and Zuckerberg “are clearly fairly high level,” he added with out going into specifics.
Zuckerberg had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week at Trump’s invitation, a transfer that Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller said indicated Zuckerberg’s willingness to work with Trump.
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“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of, and a participant in, this change we’re seeing,” Miller told Fox Information last week.
Mark Zuckerberg. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Zuckerberg did no longer endorse Trump earlier than the election, although he did put up on Threads, an app he owns, that he was “praying for a quick recovery” after the assassination attempt on the President-elect in July. After Trump’s win, Zuckerberg prolonged his congratulations.
“Looking forward to working with you and your administration,” Zuckerberg wrote in a put up on Threads on November 6.
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The relationship between Trump and Zuckerberg hasn’t always been cordial or supportive.
Trump wrote in his guide “Save America,” which came out on September 3, that Zuckerberg plotted against him in the 2020 election. Trump warned that he was watching Zuckerberg “closely” and if Zuckerberg did “anything illegal” in the 2024 presidential election, he would stagger to penitentiary.
Zuckerberg is the third richest person in the arena at the time of writing with a regain value of $217 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
