After Meta Announcement, Lina Khan Urges Trump Not To Cut ‘Sweetheart Deals’ With Big Tech

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan urged President-elect Donald Trump not to succumb to Big Tech companies’ efforts to appease him by cutting “sweetheart deals” that let companies like Meta and Amazon off with a slap on the wrist.

Sorkin asked Khan to respond to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon Chair Jeff Bezos, and Apple CEO Tim Cook visiting Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, as well as Amazon and Meta’s million-dollar contributions to Trump’s inauguration. And while Sorkin did not mention it, Zuckerberg also announced Tuesday that Meta would ditch fact-checkers in favor of a “community notes” system of the kind employed by X, a platform where conservatives feel more at home.

Khan characterized these outreach efforts to Trump as attempts to get a “sweetheart deal” — meaning “some type of settlement that’s cheap, that settles for pennies on the dollar and lets them escape from a liability finding in court.”

“We are set to go to trial against Facebook this spring, against Amazon in fall of 2026,” she continued. “Of course they would want a sweetheart deal, and I hope future enforcers wouldn’t give them that.”

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