Zuckerberg gives Trump $1m despite president-elect threatening to jail him for life

Mark Zuckerberg has handed $1m (£790,000) to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, just months after the president-elect threatened to imprison him for life.

The billionaire Facebook founder made the donation ahead of a private dinner with Mr Trump at his Mar-A-Lago club last month in a sign of thawing relations between the pair.

Facebook suspended Mr Trump’s account for two years in 2021 in the wake of the Jan 6 riots on Capitol Hill. Mr Trump has repeatedly suggested he could jail the Meta chief executive if his social media empire swung the outcome of the election.