Leaders of the world's most influential technology platforms are attending President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration after donating millions of dollars to the inaugural committee.
Many of Silicon Valley's leaders, many of whom have established the strictest censorship practices in their platforms, attended Trump's inauguration as the country's 47th president. They joined Elon Musk, a prominent Trump advisor and Tesla CEO, in taking the honors at the inauguration.
list Contains Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Other prominent technology leaders in attendance include TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, OpenAI head Sam Altman, Uber head Dara Khosrowshahi, and more.
Many of these large technology companies and their CEOs are include Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft donated millions of dollars to President Trump's inaugural committee.
Some of these tech companies are starting to pivot away from cumbersome fact-checking systems in favor of free speech. In early January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his platform's content moderation policies and practices on Facebook and Instagram, including discontinuing Facebook's third-party “fact-checking” system, which is known for its left-wing bias. announced major changes.
Zuckerberg also said that Donald Trump's recent election marked a “cultural tipping point” toward prioritizing free speech over suppressing misinformation and alleged hate speech. Announced.
Meta will also eliminate its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program and instead focus on hiring without regard to an individual's unchanging characteristics.
google said In Europe, it doesn't add fact checks to its search results or YouTube videos, ignoring EU laws that require tech giants to use fact checkers.
However, it appears the search giant is not completely leaning toward Trump, as Pichai attended Monday's inauguration.
In the aftermath of Trump's historic election, Google was planning to co-host a social event with Democratic super PAC Priorities USA as Democrats sought to “resist Republican policies.”
A Google spokesperson said the tech giant will host a Priorities USA happy hour. However, a spokesperson said the company will not be participating in the “digital retrospective” event.
“We are not involved in crafting the content of the conference. Just as we do for large advertising buyers on both sides of the aisle, our political sales team hosts drinks after the event. “This is planned,” the spokesperson said.
Sean Moran is a policy reporter at Breitbart News. Follow him on X @SeanMoran3