Zuckerberg's new policy chief warns EU Meta will run to Trump whenever the tech giant feels it's being unfairly punished
Source: Fortune
Zuckerberg’s new policy chief warns EU Meta will run to Trump whenever the tech giant feels it’s being unfairly punished by Brussels
Christiaan Hetzner
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM EST 4 min read
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the sixth most valuable company in the world, has a message for the European Union—punish our business again and we'll call President Trump.
At the annual Munich Security Conference, during which the Trump administration pushed back on its European allies on Ukraine and other issues, the new global policy chief of Meta said he wouldn’t hesitate to enlist the aid of the White House if the company felt it had been treated unfairly by Brussels.
“When companies are treated differently in a way that is discriminatory against them, then that should be highlighted to that company’s home government. So I think we will do that with President Trump,” Joel Kaplan told the conference on Sunday. “I don’t think we’re going to shy away from saying when we think that the enforcement of these laws is being directed at us goes beyond.”
Meta has been hit with upwards of $3 billion in fines by the European Union for violation of data privacy and antitrust rules
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