Meta's appointment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO to its corporate board could kick off a new trend.

CEO and President Dana White will join Meta’s board of directors, the social media company announced Monday. White is part of a trio of new additions to the

President and CEO and a staunch ally of president-elect Donald Trump, has joined the board of directors of Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta (META), the company announced Monday.

White's election as a Meta director two weeks before Trump takes office comes as Silicon Valley is courting the incoming administration.

Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship ... He also had Meta donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Amazon’s (AMZN) Jeff Bezos made similar donations.

Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship president ... including Meta of anti-conservative bias. Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have each donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration ...

Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Apple ... say Meta may have taken the game to a new level this week when it added Dana White, chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and one of Trump ...

White has grown closer with Zuckerberg in recent years as the tech billionaire has attended several UFC fights and provided advice on the use of artificial intelligence on UFC fighter rankings.

Elon Musk is being eyed by Chinese authorities as a potential buyer of TikTok. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

For all the talk of freedom, Mr Zuckerberg’s video was another example of the capture of American business by the bullying incoming president. Mr Trump has called Facebook an “enemy of the people” and threatened to ensure that Mr Zuckerberg “spends the rest of his life in prison”.

The guest list includes some of America’s most influential tech billionaires and politicians as well as some foreign leaders and celebrities who have embraced Trump.

High-profile tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will sit front and center at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.