Google, Facebook and Twitter staff waste Democrats before partial exams
Google, Facebook and Twitter staff waste Democrats before partial exams
President Trump has repeatedly called Google, Facebook and Twitter for a liberal bias. Two weeks until the partial exams, it seems that he could have had a point.
The employees of the technological giants have awarded a total of $ 2.4 million to the candidates of the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to the presentations of the Federal Elections Commission. Of that, only $ 176,000 (only 8 percent) went to Republicans.
By comparison, in the last partial exams of 2014, Google, Facebook and Twitter workers delivered a total of $ 838,000 to candidates for Congress, according to the non-partisan Center for Receptive Policies. Of that, $ 679,000 went to the Democrats and $ 259,000 to the Republicans.
In July, President Trump accused Twitter of "banning shadow" prominent Republicans. "It's not right," he tweeted. He also accused Google in a series of tweets in August of reproducing negative articles about him in the search results.
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The results of the campaign donation could provide Trump with more ammunition that the large technology companies have an integrated bias that leans to the left.
"It's interesting to see that employees in the tech world are giving substantially more donations to Democrats than to Republicans, but it's not surprising, since many of these employees probably reside in blue states and the nature of industry employees, with higher incomes, and "Many of these employees may be affected by policies that are in the news at the moment, such as immigration to education," University of Arkansas political science professor Karen Sebold told Fox News .
In addition, said Sebold, whose specialty is campaign finance, donations for the 2018 partial exams are becoming increasingly presidential, "therefore, the votes / donations could be taken as a sign of opposition to President Trump." .
The leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter have denied any bias.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted during the testimony before Congress that Silicon Valley was an "extremely leaning place to the left" and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has granted that his staff is mainly "left".
The PACs of Facebook and Google are another story. Those PACs favored Republicans over Democrats over the years, according to records. In 2016, for example, the PACs of these two firms gave a total of $ 1 million to the Republicans and $ 878,000 to the Democrats. The PACs did not contribute to the presidential candidates. (The Twitter PAC in 2016 only donated $ 8,000 to the Democrats and $ 7,500 to the Republicans).
In 2018, there has been a dramatic turn. Facebook and Google PACS have awarded almost $ 607,000 to the Democrats and $ 538,000 to the Republicans.
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However, when it comes to individual employee donations, there is a marked leaning to the left.
Google employees have given more than their counterparts on Facebook and Twitter in terms of political contributions, $ 1.7 million, according to records. From that, they favored the Democrats by a decisive margin. Only $ 117,000 went to the Republicans.
The same happens on Facebook.
Facebook employees donated nearly $ 549,000 to Democrats who run for Congress. Only $ 58,000, just under 10 percent, went to Republicans.
Twitter employees have donated a total of $ 105,000 during the 2018 election cycle. None of that money has gone to Republicans.
Google vice president Jason Spero said CNBC in May that his political activism has grown since Trump was elected.
"I've never been as conscious, awake and active as I've been since that November," he said.
The station reported that at that time, Spero and other employees of Google and Silicon Valley had their sights set on the 2018 partial exams and changed the House of Representatives in favor of the Democrats.
The FEC presentations show that Spero and his colleagues have donated more than $ 93,000 to three California Democrats, who are trying to convert three seats in the House of Representatives in blue: Mike Levin, who is running to withdraw the seat of Congressman from the House of Representatives. Republican party Darrel Issa, Jessica Morse, who is trying to remove him from incumbent Tom McClintock and Joshua Harder, who challenges incumbent GOP Jeff Denham.
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Google employees have also donated nearly $ 31,000 to Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke, who is running against Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, the incumbent.
Cruz received a campaign contribution from a Google employee for $ 250.
Two other Google workers have also donated a total of $ 1,350 to Trump in 2018, the presentations show.
O'Rourke was also one of the main cash receivers of the Facebook employee campaign, according to the FEC documents. Donations to Beto totaled more than $ 18,000.
Other beneficiaries include Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat from New Jersey who outlasted Republican incumbent Scott Garrett in 2016. Facebook employees gave him $ 17,500.
Five Twitter employees in equal numbers have donated nearly $ 10,000 each to three Democrats: Jared Golden, Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine, Jessica King, Republican Rep. Lloyd Smucker in Pennsylvania and JD Scholten, vs. Republican Rep. Steve King in Iowa.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is listed as a donor but not for any candidate in Congress.
Instead, the presentations show that he gave the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee and the National Republican Senate Committee each $ 33,900, the maximum contribution.
Dorsey also has not donated money to Democrats or Republicans in 2018, nor to Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg's only donations were two to the Facebook PAC for a total of $ 10,000.
Emails to Google, Facebook and Twitter for comments were not returned immediately.
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