The world's most powerful person meets Donald Trump
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met President Donald Trump in the oval office for it White House on Thursday. And while Zuck didn't mind mentioning the meeting on any of his social media channels, the president proudly posted a photo of the two men who greeted on Facebook Twitter and Instagram (who also owned by Facebook).
Zuckerberg, arguably the most powerful person in the world to lead a company with more than 2.3 billion people, was in Washington, DC on Thursday to meet with a number of lawmakers. One lawmaker, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, even asked Zuckerberg to sell Instagram and WhatsApp, an idea that the billionaire Facebook founder was unwilling to entertain .
Zuckerberg's sit-down with President Trump reportedly included Dan Scavino, the director of the White House in social media, but was not open to journalists and news photographers . A Facebook spokesperson told CBS News that the meeting with Trump was "good" and "constructive," even though the tech giant did not answer questions from Gizmodo.
President Trump has repeatedly dismissed the heads of social media companies such as Twitter and Facebook in recent years, claiming without evidence that they have an anti-conservative bias and restrict speech to Trump supporters. Trump has even asked why supposedly liberal institutions are not censored on platforms such as Facebook, a question that seems to contradict his alleged support for free speech.
Zuckerberg also met with Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia this week to discuss the future of social me di a . Warner hosted a dinner in Washington on Wednesday night talking about Libra, Facebook's digital currency that is already controversial around the world. Zuck told Warner that Facebook and the Libra Association, a Switzerland-based group of companies, would not launch cryptocurrency until they were acquired by US financial regulators, according to the Washington Post .
Trump supporters using Facebook left thousands of comments on the White House to express their disgust at Zuckerberg, demonstrating how important and insightful these social media platforms can be for a working democracy like the United States.
"Ask him when his crews are going to (rather) suppress conservative views!" wrote a Facebook user.
"How is he allowed in the White House to censor (sic) conservatives and plagues with elections," said another user.
"Pls suspended (sic) all account communists," wrote another Facebook user.
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* (4) business to get ahead *
* (5) lottery number *
* (6) marital problems *
* (7) workplace promotion *
* (8) happiness for jobs *
* (9 ) sickness *
* (10) trial *
* (11) police station Case *
* (12) Girlfriend boys have problems *
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Took the words straight out of my mouth.
I can't wait for the 2020 presidential election . It's going to be both normal and good. It is tough to predict the future, but at least we can all count on these two things. The next choice will be normal and it will be good.
