{"id":19434,"date":"2025-01-06T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2025-01-07T00:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:30:32","slug":"dana-white-u-f-c-head-joins-metas-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19434","title":{"rendered":"Dana White, U.F.C. Head, Joins Meta\u2019s Board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. White, a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, further strengthens the social media giant\u2019s connections with the incoming administration.<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Monday that Meta had added Dana White, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and two other executives to its board.<\/p>\n

Meta is adding Mr. White, a longtime friend of President-elect Donald J. Trump<\/a>, to the social media company\u2019s leadership amid a series of moves to strengthen its ties to the incoming administration. Last week, the company shook up the top of its policy team<\/a>, appointing a longtime executive known for his Republican ties as head of global policy. Meta has also donated $1 million to Mr. Trump\u2019s inaugural fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In recent years, Mr. White and Mr. Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, have bonded over their passion for professional fighting, including mixed martial arts, which Mr. Zuckerberg took up in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cDana is the President and CEO of UFC, and he has built it into one of the most valuable, fastest growing, and most popular sports enterprises in the world,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg said in his post. \u201cI\u2019ve admired him as an entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2023, Mr. White attempted to broker a cage match<\/a> between Mr. Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, Tesla and SpaceX. Mr. Musk, who has become a close ally of Mr. Trump, eventually backed out of the battle, citing an old injury. He claimed Mr. Zuckerberg was at fault for not making himself available to fight later on.<\/p>\n

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, created three new board seats for the appointments, bringing the total number to 13. Mr. Zuckerberg said the company had also added John Elkann<\/a>, the chief executive of Exor, a European-based holding company that controls Jeep and Ferrari, and Charlie Songhurst, a tech investor who previously worked at Microsoft and has recently advised Meta on artificial intelligence projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have massive opportunities ahead in A.I., wearables, and the future of social media, and our board will help us achieve our vision,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.<\/p>\n

Meta in recent years has begun to manufacture wearable technology, like gaming headsets and sunglasses equipped with cameras. It is also competing in a global A.I. race, launching its own generative system with \u201copen source\u201d code<\/a> so that it can be freely copied, modified and reused by anyone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Meta has faced harsh Republican criticism of its content moderation on its social media platforms, which Mr. Trump and others argue amounts to censorship of conservative voices. Some of the people the president-elect has tapped to regulate the tech and other industries have promised to crack down<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Mr. Zuckerberg met with Mr. Trump<\/a> at Mar-a-Lago, during which the tech executive congratulated the president-elect on winning the election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. White, a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, further strengthens the social media giant\u2019s connections with the incoming administration.Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Monday that Meta had added Dana White, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and two other executives to its board.Meta is adding Mr. White, a longtime friend of President-elect Donald J. Trump, to the social media company\u2019s leadership amid a series of moves to strengthen its ties to the incoming administration. Last week, the company shook up the top of its policy team, appointing a longtime executive known for his Republican ties as head of global policy. Meta has also donated $1 million to Mr. Trump\u2019s inaugural fund.In recent years, Mr. White and Mr. Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, have bonded over their passion for professional fighting, including mixed martial arts, which Mr. Zuckerberg took up in 2022.\u201cDana is the President and CEO of UFC, and he has built it into one of the most valuable, fastest growing, and most popular sports enterprises in the world,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg said in his post. \u201cI\u2019ve admired him as an entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand.\u201dIn 2023, Mr. White attempted to broker a cage match between Mr. Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, Tesla and SpaceX. Mr. Musk, who has become a close ally of Mr. Trump, eventually backed out of the battle, citing an old injury. He claimed Mr. Zuckerberg was at fault for not making himself available to fight later on.Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, created three new board seats for the appointments, bringing the total number to 13. Mr. Zuckerberg said the company had also added John Elkann, the chief executive of Exor, a European-based holding company that controls Jeep and Ferrari, and Charlie Songhurst, a tech investor who previously worked at Microsoft and has recently advised Meta on artificial intelligence projects.\u201cWe have massive opportunities ahead in A.I., wearables, and the future of social media, and our board will help us achieve our vision,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.Meta in recent years has begun to manufacture wearable technology, like gaming headsets and sunglasses equipped with cameras. It is also competing in a global A.I. race, launching its own generative system with \u201copen source\u201d code so that it can be freely copied, modified and reused by anyone.Meta has faced harsh Republican criticism of its content moderation on its social media platforms, which Mr. Trump and others argue amounts to censorship of conservative voices. Some of the people the president-elect has tapped to regulate the tech and other industries have promised to crack down as a result.In recent weeks, Mr. Zuckerberg met with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, during which the tech executive congratulated the president-elect on winning the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19436,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19437,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/19437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}