Meta names former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick as its president

Meta Platforms has appointed former Trump administration official Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman. Her appointment is the latest in a series of changes Meta has made in the last year that more closely align the company with Trump. Meta is accelerating investments in frontier AI and personal superintelligence, due to which CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seeking Trump's support to build data centers and energy capacity for those projects.

President Donald Trump congratulated Powell post on Truth Social as soon as her appointment news was announced.

Ahead of Trump's second inauguration, Zuckerberg visited President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. His company also scrapped its U.S. fact-checking program, elevated Republican Joel Kaplan as the company's new chief global affairs officer and ended its diversity programs, all moves that appealed to Trump.

Meta in early January hired former Trump trade adviser C.J. Mahoney to lead its legal team, replacing general counsel Jennifer Newstead, a former Trump administration official.

Powell will help Meta expand its data centers, build new strategic capital partnerships and increase the company's "long-term investment capacity," according to a company statement.

Powell McCormick spent 16 years in senior leadership roles at Goldman Sachs. She served as deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term, and as a senior White House adviser under former President George W. Bush. Her husband is U.S. Senator David McCormick, a Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the Senate subcommittee responsible for energy policy - an area in which she will be involved at Meta.