Zuckerberg and Bezos, despite strained ties with Trump, join other CEOs in congratulating the new President

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In brief: It's fair to say that Donald Trump didn't always have the best relationship with the technology industry when he was last at the White House. However, following his re-election as US president, tech leaders and luminaries have been rushing to congratulate him, even Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who Trump once threatened to jail for life, said he looked forward to working with the new administration.

With a new government comes new policies and regulations. Considering both Trump and JD Vance have called out Big Tech over its power, suggesting the tightening of antitrust rules, CEOs and leaders have been quick to emphasize their willingness to work with the new leaders.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who discussed with Trump in 2019 the implications of the US trade war with China on Apple, congratulated the President on X. Cook talked about engaging with the administration to ensure the US continues to lead with and be fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.

Sam Altman's message was more subdued. He congratulated Trump and wished him huge success in the job. AI regulation will be one of the areas under the spotlight when Trump takes office, and OpenAI will be hoping for a less aggressive stance by the White House.

Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos has had a tumultuous relationship with Trump over the years, clashing publicly on several occasions. Trump has repeatedly criticized the Bezos-owned Washington Post, accused Amazon of avoiding taxes while under Bezos' leadership, claimed the company was "ripping off" the US Postal Service, and more. In 2019, Amazon filed a lawsuit alleging that Trump's personal feelings toward Bezos influenced the Pentagon's decision to award the $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon.

But it seems Bezos, who stopped The Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris to allegedly avoid creating the "perception of bias", wants to reset the relationship. He said Trump had experienced an "extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory."

Bezos' Amazon CEO successor, Andy Jassy, also congratulated Trump and said he looked forward to working with his administration.

Someone else who has had a difficult relationship with Trump is Meta boss Zuckerberg. Facebook banned Trump for two years shortly after the January 6 insurrection in 2021. Trump has also called Facebook the enemy of the people, accused Zuckerberg of plotting against him during the 2020 election, and said he would "spend the rest of his life in prison" if he ever did it again.

"Congratulations to President Trump on a decisive victory. We have great opportunities ahead of us as a country," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads. "Looking forward to working with you and your administration."

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was another to offer his congratulations and a commitment to working with Trump, as did Microsoft boss Satya Nadella and Intel Chief Exec Pat Gelsinger, who probably doesn't want to deal with any more problems right now.

In related news, Bitcoin reached an all-time high of more than $75,000 yesterday following confirmation of Trump's re-election.

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Zuckerberg and Bezos, despite strained ties with Trump, join other CEOs in congratulating the new President

 
I can only imagine what Trump may have said to Zuck there, behind curtain...
How are you, Zucker-Burger? Did you enjoy your indictments? Would you consider life in prison? But maybe enough existentialism. Would you like a cookie? We have some Orios here, they are presidential, I like those, and you better like those too. They were made by white women, who can cook. They add some coke inside, I know because I asked them to.
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Uncle Al said:
Looks like everyone is sucking up ......
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For a president, that comes with the turf.

It reminds me of a famous Londo Mollari quote (from Babylon 5):
Another of the benefits of being a president, is not so much the people who are pleased to see you in office. It's the people who are furious that you're even alive, no less holding a position of power. Knowing that every day you succeed, they die a little more inside, makes the endeavor eminently satisfying.
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Win7user said:
Time for the President to do some suppressing of Facebook. Biggest, most corrupt, censoring platform on the planet!
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I doubt it. Trump ran on a platform of the government getting out of the way of business, and he's never actually called for doing anything to "corrupt media" as far as I know. Mainstream media is already destroying themselves. And Facebook already harmed itself for some Americans by politicizing the situation when banning Trump.

As a Republican who never uses Facebook, I think Mark Zuckerberg is actually more neutral than most believe. Zuckerberg admitted he was wrong when he said he believed the FBI that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, thinking the FBI was a legitimate institution. This is the type of behavior Trump threatened to jail Zuckerberg for, election interference.

In fact, he created an oversight board to override censorship by Meta, because he knows Meta has a problem. This board is what overrode a permanent ban of Trump (limiting it to 2 years), and it is attempting to make moderation more fair (while obviously allowing less content than X). It's clarifies policies in situations like these. In the most recent decision, the case "raises serious concerns" and "points to the dangers that overenforcing the Bullying and Harassment policy can have, especially in the context of an election as it may lead to the excessive removal of political speech and undermine the ability to criticize government officials and political candidates, including in a sarcastic manner": https://www.oversightboard.com/news...l-speech-being-suppressed-ahead-of-elections/

It's Facebook employees (along with many tech workers) who are far left. Musk also retained far left employees at Twitter as long as they can do their job well, but the content moderation team was among the most heavily cut departments, and this is where Twitter employees' bias harmed the platform.
 
Interesting times as the corporates juggle their running of The USA , hoping for those juicy server contracts etc

Where else do you CEOs pandering so much to their King ? least they aren't falling out of windows

It's like the Donald is really a Don , ie a new mafia boss

You get what you voted for , the smart , educated in he productive States will do just fine . Any pluses or minuses for the grunts will be conveyed as the best ever as The Corporates line up to extract for profit from Their consumers, force more eyeballs etc

Take Google, I often wonder if they force more adverts on docile americans than rest of the world.

Even in the 80s I was amazed how much adverts Americans got, a 40 minute show takes an hour with the adverts

Really you get the govt you deserve, while the grunts are divided and told to hate each other for profit and clicks
TV is the opium for the masses maybe
But hatred , fear is the dark opium to extract the most profit and keep you seeing the real enemy

Draining the swamp !! only swamp that will be drain are your rights and protections from your Corporate Masters. Note sometimes Corporates will push some right solely if they believe its a competition advantage , not because they care.

Thankfully the rest of the western world is now holding your exploiters to account, no need to thank us

Trickle down works folks , feels so good to see Zuck, Elon and Jeff living their best lives

MAGA - go watch South Park Walmart - it ain't coming back evah even Apple want a cut of every dollar you spend on entertainment , shopping , insurance

A bit sad, depressed, overweight from mountain dew and corn syrup in everything , big pharma has you covered Like those drug dealers in the late 60s we have ones to take you up , bring you down

Work hard long hours till you die, you are living your best live - it's as god intended ,
Dropping out is failure and evil

Suppose there is now surfer dudes, and rock climbers travelling the world and living their lives the new smart hippies with run new interesting businesses as they get older
 
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Nobina said:
I doubt Trump is going to do anything for real, but it would be nice for someone to put these CEOs in line a bit.
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In case you didn't notice, The muskrat is at the front of that line already. Just imagine what chaos Trump and Musk can bring to the world.
 
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In case you didn't notice, The muskrat is at the front of that line already. Just imagine what chaos Trump and Musk can bring to the world.
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Yeah, much better to allow 25 million + people to cross the US illegally. Commit horrible crimes against innocent Americans. Advocating/forcing for male's to infiltrate women's sports. Forcing people to admit males can have periods and babies. Prosecute Americans for voicing their opinions per the US Constitution. Allowing the DOJ, to criminally charge their political opponents. Lock up Americans who only walked through the Capitol building on Jan. 6th 2020! The list is endless...

If you don't like America, I'm certain based on your comment, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Iraq, or just about any of those American haters in the Middle East and else where, would love to have a traitor like you...
 
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