Dina Powell McCormick: Former Trump advisor becomes Meta top manager

The Facebook group Meta has appointed a new top manager: Dina Powell McCormick will be "President and Vice Chairman," Meta announced. The appointment again shows the tech group's proximity to the current US administration.

Powell McCormick will become a member of Meta's management team and is expected to help shape and implement the group's strategy, the company announced. Primarily, McCormick is to take care of the group's investments. Among other things, it wants to build new data centers to become a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Powell McCormick comes from the financial sector and has worked for the US investment bank Goldman Sachs for 16 years with interruptions. She also gained experience in politics: The wife of Senator David McCormick worked for the government of then-US President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2007. During the first term of President Donald Trump, she was his deputy national security advisor.

Brief interlude on Meta's board of directors

Dina Powell was a member of Meta's board of directors for about eight months last year. However, she gave up the position again in December.

Trump already commented on Powell McCormick's appointment. She is a "fantastic and very talented person," he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. Meta has made an "excellent choice."

The appointment of the Trump confidante follows a change of direction at Meta initiated by founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg had visited Trump at the Mar-a-Lago residence before his second inauguration. Along with other tech industry grandees, the Meta CEO received an invitation to the inauguration. The US tech giants are urging Trump to support them in the fight against European Union regulations – a deal that is proving quite successful.

(wpl)