"In 2013, when Barack Obama was president, Zuckerberg co-founded FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group. For years, he vocally supported providing paths to citizenship for "the most talented and hardest-working people, no matter where they were born." Now, in 2025, with Donald Trump back in power and pushing draconian immigration policies, Zuckerberg's philanthropy organization has officially cut ties with the group."
"On Friday, Bloomberg reported on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) severing its ties with FWD.us. Zuckerberg's group provided no funding to the advocacy group for the first time this year. Up to that point, over half of the roughly $400 million donated to the nonprofit since 2013 had come from CZI. In addition, CZI's chief of staff, Jordan Fox, resigned from the FWD.us board. No one else at CZI will fill the vacant slot, another first for the pro-immigration and justice reform advocacy group."
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ceased funding and formally severed ties with the pro-immigration advocacy group FWD.us in 2025. CZI provided no funding for the first time that year after contributing over half of roughly $400 million donated to the nonprofit since 2013. CZI chief of staff Jordan Fox resigned from the FWD.us board and the CZI board seat remained vacant. In late 2024 Zuckerberg met with Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who reportedly questioned his ties to FWD.us. In January 2025 Meta ended DEI programs, halted third-party fact-checking citing political bias, and relaxed rules to allow insulting language on immigration and LGBTQ+ issues.
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