Mark Zuckerberg had a private meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his resort in Mar-a-Lago, further evidence of the apparent thawing in their once frosty relations.
Donald Trump already has a close, high-profile relationship with another of the leading figures in tech, X owner Elon Musk.
Historically, though, there has been no such closeness between Donald Trump and the Meta boss- with Trump barred from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol riots, and Trump threatening the Meta boss with jail if he interfered in the 2024 presidential election.
However, there has recently been evidence those strained relations are improving, culminating in Mark Zuckerberg dining with the president-elect at his Florida mansion.
In August, Donald Trump wrote in a book Mark Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he attempted to interfere in the 2024 US election.
However, the president-elect subsequently softened his position, telling a podcast in October it was “nice” Mark Zuckerberg was “staying out of the election”, and thanking him for a personal phone call after he faced an assassination attempt.
There have have also been indications Zuckerberg is attempting to be more accommodating towards America’s incoming president.
Donald Trump was thrown off Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram in 2021 for what the company called his “praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6.”
But that suspension has since been lifted.
