Tech bosses, previously at odds with the Republican, are making amends. The organizing committee for the inauguration ceremonies raised some $200 million, an absolute record.
In recent weeks, two of the richest men in the world, the boss of Meta and that of Amazon, have engaged in a rather showy one-upmanship. It’s a question of who will court Donald Trump most effectively to gain his favor.
In early January, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, announced that he was relaxing the content moderation policy on his social network and ending the fact-checking service intended to limit misinformation, which he accused of being too much “politically biased”. He is “time to return to our roots in terms of freedom of expression”, he declared, to the great joy of conservatives. They have complained for years about being censored by Facebook, their bête noire, which, among other things, blocked Donald Trump’s account after the insurrection of January 6, 2021, before restoring it this summer.
At the same time, Mark Zuckerberg brought Dana White, a close friend of the president, to his board of directors…
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