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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Mark Zuckerberg

President Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles (left) and Miriam Adelson arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)
January 21, 2025, 12:40 pm
Pro-Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson takes center stage at Trump’s inauguration
As third-biggest contributor to the US president’s campaign, Tel Aviv-born physician, philanthropist gave $100 million in October, hosted inaugural ball alongside Mark Zuckerberg
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Joel Kaplan, named in January 2025 as Meta's president of global affairs, after leaving a meeting with a Republican senator in Washington, D.C., September 19, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP )
January 19, 2025, 12:52 am
US Jewish groups pushed Meta to crack down on hate speech. Now, it’s reversing course
The company will loosen restrictions and halt automation to detect most violations as it adapts to a political era increasingly shaped by Trump and the Republican Party
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
US President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, January 10, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ben Curtis)
January 11, 2025, 11:31 am
Biden slams ‘really shameful’ Meta plan to scrap US Facebook, Instagram fact-checking
President says move ‘completely contrary to everything America’s about’; UN rights chief: Allowing hate speech to flourish online has ‘real-world consequences’
By Anuj Chopra
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
January 7, 2025, 8:03 pm
Meta announces replacement of fact-checking program with X-style community notes
Company says change comes in part due to shift in focus to free speech after election of Trump; ADL slams company for backtracking on addressing hate, antisemitism
By AP
US President-elect Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Collage/AP)
November 28, 2024, 6:19 am
Meta CEO Zuckerberg dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Unclear if billionaire Elon Musk, a close Trump ally who previously challenged Meta CEO to cage match fight, also attended meal, though he has frequently been present at resort
By AFP
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, 'Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,' in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/ AFP)
August 27, 2024, 7:10 pm
Meta CEO Zuckerberg says US pressure to take down COVID-19 posts was ‘wrong’
In letter seen by Republicans as a win, Facebook founder says US government pressured his company to ‘censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire’
By AFP
File: People enter and exit Harvard Yard at a gate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 12, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
February 3, 2024, 9:05 am
Harvard alumni backed by billionaires Ackman, Zuckerberg fail to make board ballot cut
Candidates were put forward by billionaire who led campaign over antisemitism, Facebook founder after university shaken by resignation of president, financial issues
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, looks on during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis" in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
February 1, 2024, 5:01 pm
In Congress, Zuckerberg apologizes to parents for harm caused by social media
US senators grill tech CEOs over apparent failure to prevent online sexual exploitation of minors and self-harm; TikTok CEO vows funding for ‘trust and safety’
By Alex Pigman
This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta's new app Threads. (AP/Richard Drew)
July 7, 2023, 4:12 am
Elon Musk threatens Meta with lawsuit as Twitter rival Threads takes off
More than 30 million people download new app in less than 24 hours, says Zuckerberg, as longtime Twitter users look for alternative to troubled platform
By Alex Pigman and Thomas URBAIN
This photo, taken in New York on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, show the logo for Meta's new app Threads, right, and that of Twitter. (AP/Richard Drew)
July 6, 2023, 7:06 am
Meta takes on Twitter with launch of rival app; 5 million sign up in first few hours
Launch of Threads, a new offering billed as text-based version of Meta’s Instagram, comes at time of peak frustration with Twitter and its owner Elon Musk
By Kelvin Chan
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, right. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, Stephan Savoia)
June 22, 2023, 9:26 pm
Musk challenges Zuckerberg to a fight; Facebook chief accepts
Tech billionaires apparently agree to scrap in social media back-and-forth
By AP
Illustrative: Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg seen at the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, November 3, 2019. (Peter Barreras/ Invision/ AP)
January 26, 2023, 5:51 am
Half of US’s 25 most generous philanthropists are Jews. Few give to Jewish groups
12 billionaires with Jewish backgrounds appear on list of America’s ‘most generous givers’ who donated a collective $27 billion in 2022
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, testifies during a Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 9, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
November 29, 2022, 7:49 am
Bankman-Fried to address New York Times summit amid FTX collapse, fraud allegations
Fallen crypto magnate will speak to DealBook event alongside Netanyahu, Zelensky, Zuckerberg, despite widespread charges of unethical conduct at his company
By Luke Tress
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, October 17, 2019. (Nick Wass/AP)
November 9, 2022, 2:34 pm
Facebook parent company Meta to lay off 13% of employees in ‘most difficult change’
CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally accepts responsibility for wrongly expecting COVID-19 boost in e-commerce and online activity to continue even after pandemic
By Agencies
File - Rapper Kanye West, attends the Givenchy Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show during the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week, in Paris, on October 2, 2022. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)
October 10, 2022, 3:45 am
After ‘death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE’ tweet, Twitter, Instagram restrict Kanye West
Twitter says West’s profile locked due to violation of platform’s policies, after Instagram also takes action following antisemitic posts
By ToI Staff and AFP
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