{"id":2504708,"date":"2025-10-30T09:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-ends-up-devastating-former-enemy-facebooks-q3-nearly-erases-all-net-income-83-percent-hit\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:30:24","slug":"trumps-big-beautiful-bill-ends-up-devastating-former-enemy-facebooks-q3-nearly-erases-all-net-income-83-percent-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-ends-up-devastating-former-enemy-facebooks-q3-nearly-erases-all-net-income-83-percent-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Big Beautiful Bill&#8217; Ends up Devastating Former Enemy Facebook&#8217;s Q3 &#8211; Nearly Erases All Net Income &#8211; 83 Percent Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-big-beautiful-bill-ends-up-devastating-former-enemy-facebooks-q3-nearly-erases-all-net-income-83-percent-hit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2504708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Meta, the parent company of Instagram and formerly a political adversary of Donald Trump, faced a important $16 billion one-time tax charge in the third quarter of 2025 due to the U.S.Corporate Choice Minimum Tax implemented under the Inflation Reduction Act, also known as the &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; (BBB). This tax hit wiped out nearly all of Meta&#8217;s third-quarter income, reducing net income from an expected $18.64 billion to just $2.71 billion, despite a 26% increase in revenue. Additionally, costs rose by 32%, largely as of meta&#8217;s late entry into artificial intelligence (AI) progress and substantial investments to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Mark Zuckerberg is aggressively investing in AI superintelligence, aiming to prepare for various timelines when this technology might emerge, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-california-electricity-costs-have-more-than-doubled-energy-columnist\/\" title=\"California electricity costs have more than doubled, says energy columnist.\">heavy financial burden<\/a>. While Meta&#8217;s stock had gained 28% earlier in the year,it fell 8% after the earnings report,reflecting investor concerns over the tax and rising costs. Industry experts note that Meta&#8217;s strong focus on monetizing AI improvements in advertising and content may still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/budget-hawk-fears-spending-plan-may-trigger-future-46-income-tax-hike\/\" title=\"Budget hawk concerned about spending plan&#039;s potential to cause a 46% income ... increase in the future\">yield long-term benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>separately,the article touches on the political tensions between Trump and Meta. Trump was banned from Instagram and other platforms after the January 6 Capitol breach but later won a lawsuit settlement with Meta. Although meta reinstated trump&#8217;s account with initial restrictions, these were lifted in July 2024 to ensure equal political expression ahead of the 2024 presidential election, as Trump had largely moved his activity to his own platform by then.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s former institutional enemies will face a $16 billion hit in the third quarter, all thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill omnibus package passed over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/metas-profit-hit-by-16-billion-one-time-tax-charge-2025-10-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, and Instagram parent company Meta saw virtually all of its third-quarter income wiped out thanks to a one-time hit by the way taxes are calculated under the BBB.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-agrees-pay-trump-huge-settlement-censorship-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta<\/a> will see lower taxes in the future, the implementation &ldquo;led to the recognition of a valuation allowance against our U.S. federal deferred tax assets, reflecting the impact of the U.S. Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax,&rdquo; which &ldquo;includes a one-time, non-cash income tax charge of $15.93 billion,&rdquo; according to a company <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.atmeta.com\/investor-news\/press-release-details\/2025\/Meta-Reports-Third-Quarter-2025-Results\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being able to record a net income of $18.64 billion, therefore, the company&rsquo;s net income was $2.71 billion, despite revenue growth of 26 percent. That&rsquo;s an 83 percent hit.<\/p>\n<p>Also dragging down profits was a 32 percent increase in costs, largely a reflection of Meta coming late to the artificial intelligence game and spending increasingly large sums of money to play catch-up.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\";     var ca=document.cookie.split(';');     for(var i=0; i <ca.length; i++) {         var c=ca[i];         while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c=c.substring(1,c.length);         if (c.indexOf(nameEQ)==0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);     }     return null; 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        observeElement(paragraphToObserve);     }); }  \/\/ Assign user to a group window.adUserGroup=assignSplitTestGroup(); let isSubbed=getCookie( 'ff_subbed' );  \/\/ Example usage if (isSubbed) {     console.log('User is subscribed, not running a player'); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='A') {     console.log('Running Aditude player for group A');     aditudePlayer(); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='B') {     console.log('Running Anyclip player for group B');     anyclipPlayer(); } else {     console.log('Running STN player for group C');     stnPlayer(); } <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mark-zuckerberg-flounders-onstage-latest-ai-demo-fails-dont-know-tell-guys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> is increasingly betting on AI superintelligence, which Reuters notes is &ldquo;a theoretical milestone where machines outthink humans.&rdquo; That goal has already eaten hundreds of billions of dollars for constructing new data centers with more to come, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a range of timelines for when people think that we&rsquo;re going to get superintelligence,&rdquo; Zuckerberg said on a conference call with financial analysts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that it&rsquo;s the right strategy to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >aggressively front-load building capacity<\/a>, so that way we&rsquo;re prepared for the most optimistic cases.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While the tech giant&rsquo;s stocks had been up 28 percent this year so far, they fell 8 percent after the bell.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Goldman, a senior director at Emarketer, told Reuters that Meta&rsquo;s bet on AI may still pay off even if superintelligence doesn&rsquo;t arrive on schedule or at all.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After a few years of existential hand-wringing, the company has found its rhythm again by doing what it does best: scaling attention and monetizing it with ruthless efficiency,&rdquo; Goldman said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While everyone else is still pitching AI moonshots, Meta has quietly turned AI into margin. Its ad tools are sharper, its targeting smarter, and its short-form video business is finally paying off.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, the higher costs combined with the hit from the BBB still apparently had Wall Street worried, as evinced by the short-term stock losses.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who signed the BBB in July, was banned by and Instagram, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/twitter-files-exec-helped-ban-trump-forced-hiding-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-thomas-suggests-section-230-may-be-unconstitutional\/\" title=\"Justice Thomas Suggests Section 230 May Be Unconstitutional\">major social media platforms<\/a><\/a>, after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol incursion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/team-trump-updates-lawsuit-facebook-twitter-65000-people-submit-stories-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump would later go on<\/a> to sue Meta, Twitter, and Google over the suspensions. The suit with Meta would later be settled.<\/p>\n<p>In January of 2023, Meta announced that he would be allowed back onto the platforms, albeit with &ldquo;guardrails&rdquo; on the then-former president&rsquo;s account. However, at that point, Trump &mdash; already a candidate for the 2024 presidential election &mdash; had moved almost all of his activity to his own platform, .<\/p>\n<p>In July of 2024, long after Trump had clinched the Republican nomination for president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-facebook-lifts-restrictions-trump-giving-equal-footing-biden-social-media-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta took those &ldquo;guardrails&rdquo; off<\/a>, noting that Trump had done nothing to attempt to violate them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis,&rdquo; said Nick Clegg, Meta&rsquo;s president of global affairs.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Reuters reports that Meta, Instagram&#8217;s parent company, experienced nearly a complete wipeout of its third-quarter earnings because of a one-time tax impact related to how taxes are calculated under the BBB. Although Meta anticipates lower taxes going forward, this change required them to record a valuation allowance against their U.S. federal deferred tax assets, resulting in a non-cash income tax charge of $15.93 billion, according to an official company statement.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, instead of reporting net income of $18.64 billion, Meta&#8217;s net income dropped sharply to $2.71 billion despite 26% revenue growth-an 83% reduction. Profitability was also hurt by a 32% rise in expenses, largely due to Meta investing heavily and belatedly in artificial intelligence technology.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Mark Zuckerberg is placing significant bets on AI superintelligence-a theoretical point where machines surpass human intelligence-which has already cost hundreds of billions for new data centers with more investments planned. Zuckerberg told financial analysts that aggressively building capacity now prepares the company for optimistic timelines regarding superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Despite shares rising 28% earlier this year, they fell 8% after hours following these announcements. Industry expert Jeremy Goldman noted that even if superintelligence doesn&#8217;t arrive soon or at all, Meta&#8217;s focus on leveraging AI for improved ad targeting and monetization could still prove profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Wall Street remains cautious due to higher costs combined with the BBB-related charge affecting short-term stock performance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump signed the BBB into law in July but had been banned from Instagram and other major social media platforms after the January 6 Capitol events; he later sued several companies including Meta over these suspensions-a suit eventually settled. 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