{"id":4669,"date":"2022-02-08T00:39:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/peter-thiel-paypal-founder-and-trump-ally-to-step-down-from-meta-board\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T00:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T23:39:50","slug":"peter-thiel-paypal-founder-and-trump-ally-to-step-down-from-meta-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/peter-thiel-paypal-founder-and-trump-ally-to-step-down-from-meta-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and Trump ally, to step down from Meta board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiel, a major donor to the Republican party, was seen by critics as part of the reason why Facebook did not censor Trump<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, is stepping down from the board of Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta, after 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel, Facebook\u2019s longest-serving board member and a major donor to the Republican party, plans to focus on backing Donald Trump\u2019s allies in the November midterm elections, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/07\/technology\/peter-thiel-facebook.html\">New York Times<\/a>. He recently donated $10m each to the Senate campaigns of Blake Masters, who is running for a seat in Arizona, and JD Vance, who is running in Ohio. Masters is the chief operating officer of Thiel\u2019s family office and Vance used to work at one of Thiel\u2019s venture funds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/07\/peter-thiel-meta-facebook-board-resign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/feef2abfbe58cc14ace07918f32ab3e1a6cb0f6c\/0_0_3525_2116\/master\/3525.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=58908ca383939c803a10bd3c9e4fde60\" title=\"Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and Trump ally, to step down from Meta board\" \/>Thiel, a major donor to the Republican party, was seen by critics as part of the reason why Facebook did not censor Trump<br \/>\nPeter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, is stepping down from the board of Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta, after 17 years.<br \/>\nThiel, Facebook\u2019s longest-serving board member and a major donor to the Republican party, plans to focus on backing Donald Trump\u2019s allies in the November midterm elections, according to the New York Times. He recently donated $10m each to the Senate campaigns of Blake Masters, who is running for a seat in Arizona, and JD Vance, who is running in Ohio. Masters is the chief operating officer of Thiel\u2019s family office and Vance used to work at one of Thiel\u2019s venture funds. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiel, a major donor to the Republican party, was seen by critics as part of the reason why Facebook did not censor Trump Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, is stepping down from the board of Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta, after 17 years. Thiel, Facebook\u2019s longest-serving board member and a major donor &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/peter-thiel-paypal-founder-and-trump-ally-to-step-down-from-meta-board\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and Trump ally, to step down from Meta board<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}