Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

• Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I didn’t follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!?

  Really? I’ve never seen a single article that said that. Even this one points out that

  Amazon, Meta, Uber, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Coinbase, Toyota, Ford, GM, AT&T, Black & Decker, and Charter Communications are also making donations to Trump’s inauguration fund.

  None of these say Zuckerberg, or Bezos, etc… (except for Sam Altman). Seems that it’s companies that are the norm.

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  • AAA@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My impression came from headlines like this:

    Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump’s inauguration fund

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    • Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a bad headline, but I see where you were coming from.

      The article does mention:

      It follows news that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has already contributed $1 million to the fund. And Amazon has also promised a $1 million infusion into Trump’s inauguration coffers.

      So it was name dropping, but it’s being done as a company, not the individual. Sam Altman is still mentioned as a single and not as a company again though.

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  • Marleyinoc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least those are so companies I can easily avoid. Amazon hasn’t been easy since they monopolized the market but I can still usually buy from someone else. (Unless they charge for shipping and Amazon still ships same product for free at same price).

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