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President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Mark Zuckerberg met over dinner at the White House in October, according to a report from NBC News citing a Facebook insider. Also in attendance was Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member, Trump donor and Silicon Valley financier who backed Hulk Hogans 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 Zuckerbergs October visit to the capital where he testified and faced a particularly scathing line of questioning from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who has been a vocal critic of Facebooks 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 discovered, 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 sons company. Despite other fact-checkers like Politifact and FactCheck.org ruling the claim as false, the ad was allowed to stand because of the platforms exemption for politicians. Following Facebooks policy change, Legum also noted, Trumps campaign exponentially increased its ad spending on Facebook by $1.5 million.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/zuckerberg-trump-white-house-dinner-meeting-915870/
kimbutgar
(21,215 posts)In mf45s white America she and his biracial child would be looked down upon.
Bettie
(16,130 posts)reelection campaign. So, of course they are cozy.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)while allowing the Gee Oh Pee ads to run unimpeded?