Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has donated $1mn to a fund for Donald Trump’s inauguration events in the latest overture by the social media platform aimed at mending relations with the US president-elect.
The donation marks the first time Facebook’s owner has contributed to an inauguration fund and comes after recent jockeying to curry favour with Trump, who has previously accused the platform of censoring rightwing voices and threatened to jail its chief executive.
Last week, Meta’s head of global affairs Nick Clegg conceded the company “overdid it a bit” when moderating pandemic-related content, an admission that appeared designed to placate the president-elect’s concerns.