In stark contrast to the huge meltdown that followed Donald Trump’s first presidential win in 2016, the tech industry’s reaction to his 2024 victory has been notably subdued.
The New York Times reports that eight years ago, when Donald Trump first assumed office, Silicon Valley was up in arms. Tech giants like Facebook, Google, and others loudly protested the new administration’s controversial policies. CEOs and founders, including Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Sundar Pichai, publicly expressed their opposition and joined rallies alongside their employees.
In 2018, Breitbart News exclusively published leaked video from a Google employee meeting in which executives cried and shared their personal outrage at Trump’s video. Notably, Google co-founder Sergey Brin compares Trump supporters to fascists in an early test run of the attacks against MAGA supporters to come over the next eight years.
