The current White House administration had a meeting with top CEO's from the tech industry.
Discussions of pro-business agenda which were praised by Alphabet's CEO Eric Schmidt who attended the meeting. Saying it would create "big opportunities" for U.S. firms.
Coincidentally both Google and Facebook are under attack by the EU due to not doing enough to stop the spread of terrorism or protect the privacy of EU citizens.
However, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg who criticized President Donald Trump of backing out of the Paris Climate Treaty did not attend the White House meeting.
In a sign of how seriously Facebook is taking the political climate in Europe, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg met Friday with the U.K. Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, and highlighted the company's efforts "to keep terrorists off Facebook."
"We had a constructive meeting with the Home Secretary," Sandberg said in response to a request for comment on the meeting.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron said they would consider new laws to punish companies that refuse to remove content filled with all forms of hate speech, including terrorism.
Zuckerberg's choice surely played well with the Facebook rank and file and with users who oppose Trump politically.
Whether it was good for Facebook shareholders—or risks relegating the company to a position behind Google in a line for the President's ear—is less certain.