{"id":994060,"date":"2026-02-20T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994060"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:04:33","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-meta-makes-the-biggest-election-investment-to-promote-politicians-who-are-friendly-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-makes-the-biggest-election-investment-to-promote-politicians-who-are-friendly-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta makes the biggest election investment to promote politicians who are friendly to \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook parent Meta is reportedly planning its largest-ever election-related spending effort to date this year. The Mark Zuckerberg-led social media giant may have plans to spend $65 million to support state-level political candidates who support the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. According to a report quoting officials from the companies, Meta\u2019s lobbying efforts are soon going to start in the states of Texas and Illinois. This is part of a larger trend in the company\u2019s political engagement, as there is an increasing debate about regulating AI in US states.<\/p>\n<p>The company had previously taken a more limited approach to political funding, relying mainly on contributions through its corporate political action committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook parent Meta is reportedly planning its largest-ever election-related spending effort to date this year. The Mark Zuckerberg-led social media giant may have plans to spend $65 million to support state-level political candidates who support the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. According to a report quoting officials from the companies, Meta\u2019s lobbying efforts are soon going to start in the states of Texas and Illinois. This is part of a larger trend in the company\u2019s political engagement, as there is an increasing debate about regulating AI in US states. The company had previously taken a more limited approach to political funding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}