President-elect Trump should push back on efforts in Europe and other countries to crack down on the US tech industry, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly met with the senior Trump adviser just before publicly announcing all the changes to Meta.

Mark Zuckerberg has asked President-elect Trump to stop EU imposing fines Meta CEO compared GDPR and antitrust fines to tariffs on US companies Request comes after Facebook and Instagram move to replace fact checking services with community notes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called on President-elect Donald Trump to stop the European Union from levying fines against US companies for violating the bloc’s anti-trust,

Mark Zuckerberg warns that 5% of Meta workforce is going to be cut; and "low performers" will be targeted first.

Fidias Panayiotou, a Cypriot YouTuber-turned-lawmaker who snatched his 15 minutes of fame by hugging Elon Musk, is doubtless the tech titan's biggest fan in the European Parliament -- but far from the only one.

The Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the US government under the leadership of new President Donald Trump should prevent the EU from fining American technology companies. We are talking about fines for violating antitrust rules and committing other offenses,

Zuckerberg has called on Trump to protect US companies from EU fines – following Meta's moderation policy reversal last week.

BRUSSELS — Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg was not telling the truth when he said the European Union was institutionalizing censorship, the bloc’s top tech official said.

The pushback comes as the emboldened leaders of US tech companies, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have been courting President-elect Donald Trump, with Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg urging him directly to combat EU regulatory enforcement.

He complained on the world's biggest podcast that in the last 10 years "people started pushing for ideologically based censorship."

Google has refused to comply with EU's fact-checking law and will not add these features to the search or YouTube.

Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.