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Trump met with Mark Zuckerberg at the White House and posted about it . . . on Twitter

The meeting is significant because Trump is a longtime critic of Facebook, and the social media giant has increasingly been coming under the scrutiny of lawmakers.

Trump met with Mark Zuckerberg at the White House and posted about it . . . on Twitter

BY Michael Grothaus0 minute read

The Facebook CEO met with the president at the White House on Thursday, reports CNBC. During the meeting, the president posed for a photo with Zuckerberg and then bragged about the “nice” meeting the two had . . . in a Twitter post. To be fair, Trump also included a link in the tweet to the same image on Facebook—still, everyone knows his platform of choice is not Zuckerberg’s.

The meeting is significant because Trump is a longtime critic of Facebook, and the social media giant has increasingly been coming under the scrutiny of lawmakers. It’s for that reason that Zuckerberg was actually in Washington yesterday. Besides meeting with Trump, the Facebook CEO also met with a number of other lawmakers including Senator Josh Hawley and Senator Mark Warner.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed Zuckerberg’s trip to the capital saying, “Mark is in Washington, D.C., meeting with policymakers to hear their concerns and talk about future internet regulation. He also had a good, constructive meeting with President Trump at the White House today.”

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Michael Grothaus is a novelist and author. He has written for Fast Company since 2013, where he's interviewed some of the tech industry’s most prominent leaders and writes about everything from Apple and artificial intelligence to the effects of technology on individuals and society. Michael’s current tech-focused areas of interest include AI, quantum computing, and the ways tech can improve the quality of life for the elderly and individuals with disabilities More


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