Business
What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?
In 2012, when Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people…
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Embrace of Trump Administration in Meta Employee Q&A
In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with Meta employees on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, defended…
Business
Meta and Microsoft Double Down on Huge A.I. Spending, Despite DeepSeek Threat
We have sad news: We are following the latest on the midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington between an…
Politics
Meta Agrees to Pay Trump $25 Million to Settle His Lawsuit
Meta said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed over the suspension of his…
Politics
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump
Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices. Days earlier, Mark…
Business
Meta Chief Zuckerberg Joins the Business Roundtable
Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions as a Washington power player have led him to another corner of the capital’s hobnobbing scene: the Business…
Business
Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push
Mark Zuckerberg spent all of 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be key to the future of his company, Meta. In 2025,…
News
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the…
Politics
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Other Billionaires at the Inauguration
The C.E.O. inauguration crowd In a stark display of money and power, the three wealthiest men on the planet lined up on Monday in the…
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Instagram Debuts New Video-Editing App, as TikTok Deals With a Ban
For months, Instagram has watched and waited to see what would happen to rival TikTok under a new federal law that would ban the app in…
Politics
A Who’s Who at Peter Thiel’s Trump Party: Zuckerberg, Adelson and More
Mr. Thiel prides himself on his elaborate parties, and his inauguration event, held in his seven-bedroom home, included a hired juggler…
Politics
Musk and Zuckerberg Reflect New Blows Against D.E.I. Policies
The war on D.E.I. intensifies Even before Donald Trump won in November, the conservative backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion…
Politics
Zuckerberg Will Host a Party for Trump’s Inauguration
Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive who has tried to keep a distance from politics, appears to be warming to President-elect Donald…
Politics
Mister C.E.O. Goes to Washington for the Trump Inauguration
Bezos, Zuckerberg and Coke at the inauguration Corporate America had already raced to donate big sums to Donald Trump’s record-breaking…
Politics
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small. Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a…
Politics
Will Meta’s Plan to End Fact Checking Work Politically?
Following the political winds Meta’s bombshell announcement on Tuesday that it would end its fact-checking program was widely read as a…
Business
Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?
Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker — the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about…
Politics
Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Evolution, From Apologies to No More Apologies
In November 2016, as Facebook was being blamed for a torrent of fake news and conspiracy theories swirling around the first election of…
Business
Meta Drops Rules Protecting LGBTQ Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul
For years, social media companies made it a top priority to combat hate speech. But in recent months, they have waffled over how to tackle…
Politics
Meta to End Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates
Jan. 6, 2025, 6:35 p.m. ET Dana White, left, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Mark Zuckerberg have bonded over…
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Meta Moves to End Fact-Checking Program
Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices that would effectively put an end to its longstanding…
Business
Dana White, U.F.C. Head, Joins Meta’s Board
In recent years, Mr. White and Mr. Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, have bonded over their passion for professional fighting,…