In recent times, Mr. White and Mr. Zuckerberg, the Meta chief government, have bonded over their ardour for skilled combating, together with blended martial arts, which Mr. Zuckerberg took up in 2022.
“Dana is the President and CEO of UFC, and he has constructed it into some of the priceless, quickest rising, and hottest sports activities enterprises on the earth,” Mr. Zuckerberg stated in his publish. “I’ve admired him as an entrepreneur and his potential to construct such a beloved model.”
In 2023, Mr. White tried to dealer a cage match between the Mr. Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, the billionaire proprietor of X, Tesla and SpaceX. Mr. Musk, who has change into an in depth ally of Mr. Trump, ultimately backed out of the battle, citing an previous damage. He claimed Mr. Zuckerberg was at fault for not making himself accessible to battle afterward.
Meta, which owns Fb, Instagram and WhatsApp, created three new board seats for the appointments, bringing the entire variety of board members to 13. Mr. Zuckerberg stated the corporate additionally added John Elkann, the chief government of Exor, a Europe-based holding firm that controls Jeep and Ferrari, and Charlie Songhurst, a tech investor who beforehand labored at Microsoft and has not too long ago suggested Meta on synthetic intelligence tasks.
“Now we have large alternatives forward in A.I., wearables, and the way forward for social media, and our board will assist us obtain our imaginative and prescient,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.
Meta lately has begun to fabricate wearable know-how, like gaming headsets and sun shades geared up with cameras. It’s also competing in a world A.I. race, launching its personal generative system with “open supply” code in order that it may be freely copied, modified and reused by anybody.
Meta has confronted harsh Republican criticism of its content material moderation on its social media platforms, which Mr. Trump and others argue quantities to censorship of conservative voices. Among the folks the president-elect has tapped to control the tech and different industries have promised to crack down because of this.
In latest weeks Mr. Zuckerberg met with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, throughout which the tech government congratulated the president-elect on profitable the election.
