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Relations between Trump and Mr Zuckerberg have historically been far less cordial.<\/p>\n
They particularly soured when Facebook and Instagram suspended the former president’s accounts in 2021, after they said he praised those engaged in violence at the Capitol on 6 January.<\/p>\n
Since then, Trump has waged a war of words against Meta – calling Facebook an “enemy of the people” in March. <\/p>\n
He said a law that would see TikTok banned in the US unless sold off by its parent company ByteDance would unfairly benefit Facebook.<\/p>\n
In August, Mr Zuckerberg told Republican lawmakers in a letter that he regretted bowing to pressure from the Biden administration to “censor” some Facebook and Instagram content during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
Trump wrote in a book published in September that Mr Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he tried to intervene in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n
But the president-elect appears to have since softened his position.<\/p>\n
He told a podcast in October it was “nice” Mr Zuckerberg was “staying out of the election”, and thanked him for a personal phone call after he faced an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n
Still, Mr Zuckerberg remains far less close to Trump than fellow tech titan Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
The Tesla and X owner has been dubbed Trump’s “First Buddy” because of his extensive donations to his election campaign.<\/p>\n
That has led to Mr Musk being placed in charge of a new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).<\/p>\n
There has been no such rapprochement between Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg – although the cage fight between them that was once mooted now appears to be off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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