Meta and Amazon axe diversity programs ahead of Trump inauguration - Changes at Meta come after company elevated prominent Republican to key position and donated to Trump

CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and close friend of Trump, to its board. Amazon, in a December memo to employees seen by Reuters on Friday, said it was “winding down outdated ...

Whoever is interested in obtaining the US television rights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will be paying more than a pretty penny.

Mr. White, a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, further strengthens the social media giant’s connections with the incoming administration.

Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC ... OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Amazon’s (AMZN) Jeff Bezos made similar donations. In December, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global ...

In less than two weeks, Meta has scrapped its U.S. fact-checking program, elevated prominent Republican Joel Kaplan to be its chief global affairs officer and elected Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and close friend of Trump, to its board.

In less than two weeks, Meta has scrapped its US fact-checking programme, elevated prominent Republican Joel Kaplan to be its chief global affairs officer and elected Mr Dana White, chief executive officer (CEO) of Ultimate Fighting Championship and Trump’s close friend, to its board.

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerburg will reportedly attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony.

Several important personalities including tech giants, celebrities, and political leaders are set to attend Trump’s second inauguration. Tech giants including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be attending the presidential inauguration on Monday.

Bezos’s rush to cosy up to the Trumps has been matched by corporate executives across America, as tech billionaires, financiers and the leaders of some of the US’s best-known consumer groups hurry to adjust to a more conservative zeitgeist in the wake of Trump’s election victory and the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress.

On X, Musk responded to a post about the tech billionaires and their plum spot for the inauguration next week, simply writing: “Honored.” Their combined net worth—Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg—is roughly $874 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.

This is going to be an intense year, and I want to make sure we have the best people on our teams,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in a memo.