Trump aides contact Google, Meta, Snap over on-line drug gross sales, The Data studies

(Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump’s transition staff has invited 5 main tech corporations, together with Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) to a gathering in mid-December about coping with on-line gross sales of medicine, The Data reported on Sunday.

A consultant for Jim Carroll, the drug czar throughout Trump’s first time period, and Trump’s transition staff emailed staffers from the three tech giants on Thursday, in addition to these from Snap and TikTok, to ask them to a name, the report added, citing an individual with direct information of the correspondence.

The transition officers need to hear from the businesses about their priorities and any limitations to addressing points across the gross sales of medicine on-line, the individual advised the Data.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Snap, TikTok and the Trump transition staff didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters’ request for remark.

Trump has vowed to get Mexico to do extra to cease the move of fentanyl to the U.S., which has killed a whole bunch of 1000’s of People and threatened to impose steep tariffs on items from Mexico and Canada until these nations curb fentanyl trafficking and unlawful migration.

In November, Trump additionally mentioned in a publish on Reality Social that he “will probably be engaged on a big scale United States Promoting Marketing campaign, explaining how unhealthy fentanyl is for individuals to make use of.”

In March, The Wall Road Journal reported that U.S. prosecutors had been investigating Meta’s position and whether or not it profited from the sale and distribution of medicine on Fb and Instagram.

In January, eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) agreed to pay $59 million and improve compliance measures to resolve U.S. Division of Justice allegations that it did not do sufficient to cease criminals from shopping for units for making counterfeit medication, together with tablets laced with fentanyl.