Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has donated $1 million (£786,000) to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund.
Tech giant CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago Resort Resort in November, after he sought to repair his and his company's relationship with Trump after the election.
Trump had previously strongly criticized Zuckerberg and Facebook, calling the platform “anti-Trump” in 2017.
Meta is not believed to have made similar donations to President Joe Biden's inaugural fund in 2020 or to Trump's previous inaugural fund in 2016.
The company confirmed its $1 million donation to the inaugural fund for several outlets on Wednesday.
Inauguration funds are used to pay for events and activities when a new president takes office — and some see them as an attempt to curry favor with the new administration.
CBS, the BBC's media partner in the US, confirmed the donation on Wednesday Reported for the first time By The Wall Street Journal.
The BBC has contacted Meta for comment.
Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20.
Historically, relations between Trump and Zuckerberg have been much less cordial.
They were particularly soured when Facebook and Instagram suspended the former president's accounts in 2021, after they said he praised those involved in the violence at the Capitol on January 6.
Trump has since launched a war of words against Meta, calling out Facebook “Enemy of the People” in March.
He said the law, which would ban TikTok in the United States unless it is sold by parent company ByteDance, would unfairly benefit Facebook.
In August, Zuckerberg told Republican lawmakers in a letter He expressed his regret for yielding to pressure from the Biden administration To “censor” some Facebook and Instagram content during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump wrote in a book published last September that Zuckerberg “will spend the rest of his life in prison” if he tries to interfere in the 2024 elections.
But the president-elect appears to have softened his stance since then.
He said in a podcast in October that it was “good” that Zuckerberg was staying “out of the election,” and thanked him for a personal phone call after he faced an assassination attempt.
However, Zuckerberg remains less close to Trump than fellow tech giant Elon Musk.
The Tesla and X owner has been called Trump's “number one friend” due to his large campaign donations.
This has led to Mr Musk being put in charge of a new company Department of Government Efficiency (DOGI).
There has been no such closeness between Musk and Zuckerberg, although their cage fight has previously been mooted. It now seems to be out.
