Meta names former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chairman

Source: India Today

Meta Platforms on Monday named former Trump administration official Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman, boosting the company's lobbying efforts in the US capital.

President Donald Trump congratulated Powell McCormick in a post on his Truth Social account minutes after the company announced her promotion. She is a "fantastic, and very talented, person" who served his administration with "strength and distinction," he said.

Her appointment is the latest in a series of changes Meta has made in the last year that more closely align the company with Trump. Meta is accelerating investments in frontier AI and personal superintelligence. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seeking Trump's support to build data centers and energy capacity for those projects.

Zuckerberg, ahead of Trump's second inauguration, visited him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. His company also scrapped its US fact-checking program, elevated Republican Joel Kaplan as the company's new chief global affairs officer and ended its diversity programs, all moves that appealed to Trump. Meta in early January hired former Trump trade adviser CJ Mahoney to lead its legal team, replacing general counsel Jennifer Newstead, who served in former President Joe Biden's administration.

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