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GOOGLE DONATES $1 MILLION TO TRUMP’S INAUGURATION FUND, JOINING OTHER TECH
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Published Thu, Jan 9 20259:31 AM ESTUpdated 13 Min Ago
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Key Points
 * Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration
   fund.
 * Other major tech companies and executives like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta
   both announced $1 million donations to the inaugural fund late last year.
 * Trump signaled late last year that he wouldn’t rule out antitrust
   enforcement, a particularly sore spot for Google.

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Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund,
becoming the latest major tech company to try and curry some goodwill with the
incoming administration.

“Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on
YouTube and a direct link on our homepage. We’re also donating to the inaugural
committee,” Karan Bhatia, Google’s global head of government affairs and public
policy, told CNBC in a statement.  



The company made its donation on Monday. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta both
announced $1 million donations to the inaugural fund late last year, and Amazon
and Apple CEO Tim Cook have also reportedly contributed.

After a candidate wins the presidential election in the U.S., they appoint an
inaugural committee to organize and finance inaugural events like the opening
ceremonies, galas and the parade. Unlike a direct contribution to a candidate’s
campaign, there are no limits on how much an individual — or a corporation or
labor group — can give to an inaugural committee.

Google has donated to inaugurals in the past, and the YouTube livestream and
link to the inauguration on Google’s homepage are in line with previous
inaugurations, a spokesperson said.


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Trump has had a rocky relationship with major tech companies over the years and
has not shied away from criticism of the sector following the election. He
signaled late last year that he wouldn’t rule out antitrust enforcement, which
is a particularly sore spot for Google.

A federal U.S. judge ruled in August that the company has illegally held a
monopoly in search and text advertising. Arguments in a second antitrust case
about Google’s advertising business closed in November, though a verdict has not
yet been announced.



“Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative
sector and, as we all know, using its market power to crack down on the rights
of so many Americans, as well as those of Little Tech!” Trump wrote in a Dec. 4
post on Truth Social. 

Former Alphabet President Sergey Brin and Google CEO Sundar Pichai met with
Trump after the election, and Pichai publicly congratulated the president-elect
on his “decisive victory” in a post on X.

Tech CEOs have made substantial moves to publicly show their support for Trump
and repair their relationship with the incoming president.

Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to its approach to content moderation
across its platforms. The company eliminated its third-party fact-checking
program in favor of a “Community Notes” model, much like the one that exists on
Elon Musk’s X.

Additionally, Meta removed restrictions on subjects like immigration and gender,
and implemented a new approach to policy enforcement that will focus on illegal
and high-severity violations. This means fewer posts containing misinformation
will be suppressed or taken down.

Trump lauded Meta’s changes during a press conference on Tuesday. When asked
whether he believed Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was “directly responding to the
threats that you have made to him in the past,” Trump responded, “Probably.”

-- CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger contributed to this report


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