I wonder how Theresa Greenfield, who is spending a metric fuckton on Facebook ads, feels about her ad platform making direct political contributions to her opponentpic.twitter.com/1HqHp9El3i
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Facebook has a long history of donating to climate change denialists, but with this $1,500 donation to Chip Roy in Texas is making its first foray into coronavirus denialism. Roy has claimed the disease is spread by illegals pouring in over the closed Mexican borderpic.twitter.com/AzKZ8tRRU7
A few points that always come up in these threads. First, these PAC donations are completely unnecessary. Apple and IBM both demonstrate that you can be a tech giant without them. Second, the amounts are this small because of campaign finance law—the maximum is $5,000/election
The value of a political donation from Facebook is not just monetary, but a public expression of the fact that the most powerful platform for political advertising in America has your back. Facebook employees have the power to stop this cold, but they won't exercise it.
Who pays into this system? Pretty much every top executive at the company—Sheryl Sandberg, @boztank, Zuckerberg himself (when he's not busy writing his latest apology). Good luck getting any of them to explain why they continue giving money to the worst people in Congress
I would say it's time to flip the "IT HAS BEEN [x] DAYS SINCE EMPLOYEES WERE OUTRAGED sign over at Facebook HQ, but this stuff doesn't even make a blip.
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