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• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Zuckerberg, Trump, Melania, and Thiel had a secret dinner at the White House last month. Facebook has been preaching political transparency. Yet it didn't disclose this. https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  @DylanByers @NBCNews It's unclear why Facebook and the White House didn't admit Zuckerberg, Trump and Peter Thiel had this dinner until we found out separately and asked Facebook. It's also unclear what the Facebook CEO, board member and president talked about. https://www.nbcnew…

• @mat Mat Honan on x

  I genuinely don't understand why @Facebook would issue such a smarmy response here. The “As is normal” phrasing does them no favors. If it's so utterly normal and banal, why not announce it? Why is it going viral, if it is so normal? Made it worse. https://www.nbcnews.com/... htt…

• @arlanwashere Arlan on x

  “A source familiar with the dinner told NBC News that Thiel was also present. It is unclear why the meeting was not made public or what Trump, Zuckerberg and Thiel discussed.” ...because it was shady AF. https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @marcacaputo Marc Caputo on x

  Secrecy abets suspicions https://twitter.com/...

• @yoda Drew Olanoff on x

  anyone who is surprised that thiel has been working zuck on behalf of trump is a moron https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @sruhle Stephanie Ruhle on x

  SECRET DINNER with @realDonaldTrump - Peter Thiel & Mark Zuckerberg... WHY WOULD IT NEED TO BE SECRET? https://twitter.com/...

• @atrupar Aaron Rupar on x

  Remember when White House visitor logs were a thing? https://twitter.com/...

• @orzelc Chad Orzel on x

  It's perfectly clear why they didn't publicize this: Each of the three believes that being seen to associate the other two will harm their public image. The beautiful part is that all three are right. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x

  “Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible” — Pete Thiel, the go-between helping Trump & Zuckerberg solve the problem of democracy existing. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffbercovici Jeff Bercovici on x

  lol remember when Zuck sent Sheryl to that tech CEOs summit in his place to send a carefully calibrated message? a long way from that to “of COURSE you don't refuse a dinner invitation from POTUS, dummies”

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  For a company that wants to appear to be apolitical, it certainly is spending a lot of time being political. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexisgoldstein @alexisgoldstein on x

  Zuckerberg meets with all kinds of people who all happen to only be Republicans https://twitter.com/...