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Written by Cabel Sasser on 2025-01-05 at 03:39

you got it this time, apple intelligence

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Written by Timothy Swan on 2025-01-05 at 14:42

@cabel So it turned out that the Tim Cook that donated was not the CEO of Apple, but another Tim Cook. Posting this seems to reinforce the original error. People reading this think the CEO of Apple donated to Trump when that isn’t correct.

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Written by Cabel Sasser on 2025-01-05 at 15:40

@timswan Can you send me an article backing this GPT-sounding claim? I see no such correction here: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration

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Written by Timothy Swan on 2025-01-05 at 15:51

@cabel I’ve now read multiple articles claiming different things. I’m going to wait until I’m confident one way or the other. I’ll just add that the Axios report is based on third-hand reporting and that other reports appear to be using it as the basis for their articles. Either way, I think the good that Apple does outweighs paying protection money to Trump’s inauguration and I’ll wait to see if Apple supports Trump’s policies before deciding just how bad this is.

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Written by Cabel Sasser on 2025-01-05 at 18:44

@timswan Sorry Tim, just want to ping you again on this as it’s very urgent as i don’t want to spread misinformation. Can you send me a link to just one of those articles you found that say Tim did NOT donate $1M to Trump? Thank you!

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Written by Timothy Swan on 2025-01-05 at 19:58

@cabel I don’t have a link to an article, but I read somewhere that the Tim Cook that donated lived in Minnesota. That, of course, could be completely wrong. So far I haven’t seen this reported by any of the large newspapers, and they’ve been all over the donations from Bezos, Ellison, Zuckerberg, etc.

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Written by Cabel Sasser on 2025-01-05 at 20:16

@timswan You’ve got the stories mixed up — the Tim Cook in Minnesota donated to BIDEN’S inaugural fund. We were wondering if Tim Cook also supported Biden in the same way; he did not.

The story about Tim Cook (California) donating to Trump is absolutely true and most likely planted by Apple to get ahead of it. If it was false, Apple PR would’ve been all over it and Axios within 5 milliseconds.

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Written by Timothy Swan on 2025-01-06 at 13:05

@cabel That’ll teach me to post without knowing the facts 100% first. Disappointing, but given the state of things, not surprising.

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