Meta agrees to pay $ 25 million to Trump to solve the lawsuit

Meta agreed that after the riot on Wednesday, he paid $ 25 million to President Trump to resolve the Facebook and Instagram account suspension.

This was an important concession by a major high -tech company, and Trump's victory. Mr. Trump had previously criticized him for censorship of his social media platform, but recently pleaded for high -tech Titan, such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the highest executive of meta.

Zuckerberg has raised his support behind Trump and rebuilt his company for the new administration. This month, Zuckerberg has made a sweeping policy change and eliminates diversity and comprehensive initiatives in order to enable more speeches in Meta, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Whatsapp. In some cases, it has been proven that the change is controversial in his labor.

On Wednesday's Meta's quarterly financial results, Zuckerberg praised the Trump administration by supporting an American high -tech company and protecting our value.

He added, “This will be a big year to redefine the relationship with the government.”

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other apps, has announced a 49 % jumping and 49 % profits in the fourth quarter, but has announced a light profit forecast for the current quarter.

In December, ABC News agreed to pay $ 15 million to resolve Trump's honorary ATION lawsuit. ABC News agreed to donate money to Trump's future presidential Foundation and museum. George Stephanopros, an anchor of the star, also issued a statement that “regrets” Trump in an interview in March.

The reconciliation with Meta Trump is in accordance with similar conditions. Approximately 22 million dollars are spending on providing Trump's funds to Presidential Library, and the remaining $ 3 million is assigned to Trump's litigation and other plaintiffs. Meta does not accept misconduct as part of a previously reported contract by Wall Street Journal.

On Wednesday, Meta stated that the fourth quarter revenue and profits were mainly promoted by posts related to advertising targeting and the progress of the system to propose videos to users. The company said that the improvement was caused by continuous investment in artificial intelligence.

According to data edited by market analysis company Factset, the fourth quarter revenue was $ 48.4 billion, exceeding $ 40.1 billion in the previous year, an estimated Wall Street estimated $ 47 billion. Profit was $ 14 billion to $ 20.8 billion of the previous year.

However, the Silicon Valley Company also said that the quarterly profit would be $ 39.5 billion to $ 41.8 billion. The prediction low -end was below the expectation of $ 41.7 billion analysts.

The earning forecasts, especially the meta, was planning to increase expenditures, and raised questions among investors. Last week, Meta stated that this year's capital spending will exceed $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion in a total of $ 38 billion to $ 40 billion spent in 2024 in data centers and other infrastructure. Developing small -scale businesses such as AI Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Openai has also fired billions to lead in AI.

Recently, China's emerging companies, Deepseek, have questioned how technology will be developed after creating some new AI models of many US companies. Deepseek has built a technology using AI tools that can be used freely by Meta and other technologies, and has released the results of all use, which is a common high -tech industry practice called Open Source.

In investors, Zuckerberg called Deepseek a “new competition partner” and stated that there are “open source standards all over the world.” However, he added a nationalism touch, saying, “It's important to be an American standard for our own national interests.”

The immersed digital world, the so -called meta -spa push, continued to lose money. The company's reality lab division, which develops a surplus reality glasses and virtual reality products for metaharbus, has lost $ 5 billion in the fourth quarter.

Nevertheless, the company continued to add users to the app. According to Meta, the number of “daily active people” in the app was 3.350 million in December, an increase of 5 % since the previous year.