After Trump’s election, Meta Platforms (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg embraced the incoming president’s priorities by scrapping the company’s diversity team, ending its fact-checking program, and appointing a Trump ally to its board of directors, Sam Schechner and Kim Mackrael of The Wall Street Journal reports. Now, Meta is calling in a favor, asking U.S. trade officials to fight against an unexpected European Union fine and cease-and-desist order, people familiar with the conversations told the Journal. The expected decision related to whether Meta should be forced to give Facebook and Instagram users the option of accessing those platforms for free without seeing personalized ads.
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