Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a close Donald Trump supporter, will join Meta’s board of directors in yet another signal that the company is moving to further align itself with the incoming administration.

This comes at a time when the political leaning of Meta's board seems to be in transition after the victory of Trump in the US elections

Social media giant Meta announced Monday the appointment of three new directors to its board, including Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC ... Meta last week named Republican stalwart Joel Kaplan to head up public affairs at the company, taking over ...

White is the CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship and an ally of Donald Trump ... and Meta's ex-president of global affairs — was announced earlier this month. Joel Kaplan, who has been the company's vice president of global public policy since 2011 ...

Dana White, the CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), is joining Meta’s board of directors, he announced in an X post Monday. “I love social media. And I’m excited to be a small part of the future of AI and emerging technologies,

(Reuters) - Meta Platforms said on Monday it had elected three new directors to its board, including Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC ... prominent Republican policy executive Joel Kaplan to the position of global affairs head.

Meta tapped long-time Trump backer Dana White to join its board of directors at at time when Republicans will soon control congress and the White House.

Still, cosying up to Trump and replacing fact-checking with a Community Notes model – the system used on Elon Musk’s X, with users adding comments to potentially false posts – brings its own risks. Meta says it has “seen this approach work on X”, but advertisers might disagree. Concerns over content moderation resulted in advertisers fleeing X.

President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire groupies Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are all expected to attend his Jan. 20 inauguration and have scored plum seating for the occasion. According to NBC News,

Facebook owner Meta and Amazon are winding down diversity programs ahead of Republican Donald Trump's return to the U.S. presidency as conservative opposition to such initiatives grows

Meta's platforms Facebook and Instagram, will no longer implement a fact-checking policy, instead relying on community

Meta Platforms (META) is ending its workplace diversity programs. Meta made the announcement in a memo to staff, saying that ahead of president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 it plans to cancel several internal programs designed to