Google Corporation donated $1 million to the inaugural fund of the newly elected US President Donald Trump. About this informs Political.
“Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration with a live stream on YouTube and a direct link to our homepage. We are also donating to the inauguration committee,” said Karan Bhatia, Global Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google.
As a result, Google joined the largest companies such as Meta, Amazon, OpenAI and Apple. All of them donated $1 million. In previous years, Google donated $285,000 to the inaugural events in 2016 and 2020, company spokesman Jose Castañeda confirmed.
It will be recalled that previously the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, announced changes in the company’s policy. Meta has announced the abandonment of fact-checking and loosening of content moderation rules. Zuckerberg said Meta would work with Donald Trump’s administration to counter pressure from governments he says are trying to limit the freedom of American companies and increase censorship.
