David Ingram is a tech reporter for NBC News.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, said Thursday it had donated $1 million to the inaugural fund of President-elect Donald Trump. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the donation, which The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday night. The donation is the latest swing in the up-and-down relationship between Trump and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company.
Trump’s successful 2016 campaign credited Facebook with helping to reach voters with digital advertising. In 2021, Meta suspended Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, as did some other platforms like Twitter, after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump’s accounts have since been restored. But in recent years, the company has said it is trying to reduce the amount of politics in people’s feeds.
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