Trump aides contact Google, Meta, Snap over online drug sales: The Information

A consultant for Jim Carroll, the drug czar ultimately of Trump’s first period of time, and Trump’s transition team emailed staffers from the three tech giants on Thursday, as successfully as these from Snap and TikTok, to invite them to a name, the remark added, citing a particular person with deliver data of the correspondence

Reuters

09 December, 2024, 12:forty five pm

Final modified: 09 December, 2024, 12:49 pm

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has invited five main tech firms, alongside with Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms b to a meeting in mid-December about facing on-line gross sales of instruments, The Data reported on Sunday.

A consultant for Jim Carroll, the drug czar ultimately of Trump’s first period of time, and Trump’s transition team emailed staffers from the three tech giants on Thursday, as successfully as these from Snap and TikTok, to invite them to a name, the remark added, citing a particular person with deliver data of the correspondence.

The transition officials are looking to listen to from the firms about their priorities and any boundaries to addressing complications across the gross sales of instruments on-line, the actual person advised the Data.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Snap, TikTok and the Trump transition team did now no longer straight acknowledge to a Reuters’ ask for comment.

Trump has vowed to accumulate Mexico to enact more to conclude the flow alongside with the circulation of fentanyl to the US, which has killed a total bunch of thousands of Americans and threatened to impose steep tariffs on items from Mexico and Canada except these nations curb fentanyl trafficking and unlawful migration.

In November, Trump moreover acknowledged in a put up on Truth Social that he “will likely be engaged on a super scale United States Promoting Marketing campaign, explaining how contemptible fentanyl is for folk to make use of.”

In March, The Wall Road Journal reported that US prosecutors were investigating Meta’s role and whether it profited from the sale and distribution of instruments on Fb and Instagram.

In January, eBay agreed to pay $59 million and improve compliance measures to resolve US Division of Justice allegations that it didn’t enact ample to conclude criminals from looking to catch units for making faux medicine, alongside with drugs laced with fentanyl.