The US government under new President Donald Trump must prevent the EU from fining American technology companies. We are talking about fines for violation of antimonopoly rules and committing other offenses.

This was announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Politico reports.


“I think the strategic advantage of the United States is that we have many of the strongest companies in the world, and I think that should be part of the U.S. strategy going forward to protect that. And that’s one of the things I’m optimistic about with President Trump,” he said.

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Politico clarifies that Zuckerberg has complained that the EU has forced US tech companies operating in Europe to pay more than $30 billion in fines for breaking the law over the past two decades.

In particular, in November 2024, the conglomerate Meta, which manages Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other social networks and communication platforms, was fined 797 million euros for violating EU antitrust rules by imposing unfair trading conditions on advertising service providers.

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Zuckerberg argued that the European Commission's application of competition rules is "almost like a tariff" for US technology companies. He said the outgoing Biden administration had failed to deal with the situation.

"The U.S. government led a kind of attack against the companies, which then just made it so that the EU, basically, in all these other places, is just free to just attack all the American companies and do whatever they want," said the CEO of Meta.

Zuckerberg made the relevant statements on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. According to Politico, his appearance in this interview took place just minutes after he announced that Meta would end its third-party fact-checking program and switch to a so-called community notes model. The move was widely interpreted as an attempt by Meta's CEO to curry favor with the Trump administration, which has long denounced moderation policies as left-leaning censorship.

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Recognizing the changing "legal and political environment", Meta also said yesterday that it would end its diversity, equality and inclusion programmes.