Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( pictured) reportedly met with US President Donald Trump to discuss the threat of digital market taxes against US companies, ahead of the latter's threat to impose tariffs on nations which do not remove such legislation. Bloomberg reported yesterday (28 August) Zuckerberg met with Trump last week to talk about the threat of countries attacking US players by instituting digital rules and taxes against them.
When Mark Zuckerberg cozied up to Donald Trump at the beginning of this year, lots of folks chalked it up to fear. After all, they pointed out, Trump had previously threatened to throw the Meta CEO in jail. More prosaically, the US government that Trump was about to head up again was suing to break up Zuckerberg's company. But as we've pointed out here multiple times, Zuckerberg - and the rest of Big Tech's leaders - aren't just trying to stay off Trump's list of targets.