UFC CEO Dana White is turning into a member of Metta’s board, the company launched for the time being. The addition of mixed-martial arts impresario Geo with Metta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s well-documented UFC fandom, barely grand approach, is leading to Metta Trump’s second time interval: right-taking.
However, that doesn’t indicate White’s seat on the board is frequent. Most of Meta’s current board members work throughout the tech enterprise. Metta, who’s turning into a member of two members White, John Elkin and Charlie Songhurst, is typical of the social media agency. White may say in Meta’s press launch that he’s “an unlimited believer that social media and AI are the long term,” nonetheless the agency he retains is a additional essential motive for his involvement now.
Dana White and President-elect Donald Trump have been buddies for years. White supported Trump’s advertising and marketing marketing campaign for re-election, and the UFC as a whole matches his strongman tastes. Inserting White on board is as lots about burnishing Zuckerberg’s self-image because it’s about entry to the incoming Trump administration. The president-elect may need thought at one degree that Zuckerberg “should spend the rest of his life in jail,” nonetheless the Meta CEO is doing each factor he can to courtroom him.
Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago in November 2024 and had dinner with Trump, one amongst various tech CEOs to take motion. Meta may also be adjusting its authorities ranks to work larger with a conservative authorities. Nick Clegg, the company’s former president of worldwide affairs, launched he was stepping down ultimate week, to get changed by Metta’s most distinguished Republican authorities, Joel Kaplan. Kaplan has an eight-year tenure throughout the Bush administration to his credit score rating. Zuckerberg has been in UFC mode for a while now, and it seems identical to the meta could be, too, for at least the next 4 years.