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2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, wife donate $400M total to help election polls Tuesday, October 13, 2020 SHARE TWEET EMAIL EMBED <>MORE VIDEOS Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife are donating an additional $100mil to their previous $300mil to fund polls for elections. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating more money to local governments ahead of this election. The Washington Post reports their latest $100 million donation is on top of a previous $300 million gift that will help with challenges related to the pandemic based on needs specified from election officials. The money was sent through the Center for Tech and Civic Life. ============================================== ABC News: Mark Zuckerberg spent $419M on nonprofits ahead of 2020 election — and got out the Dem vote By William Doyle October 13, 2021 9:22pm Updated CHANGED A LOT OF OUR ELECTION ("Kamala Harris, who took the second largest amount ($30,990)...") read on. Mark Zuckerberg funded the private takeover of government election offices: Mollie Hemingway MORE ON: MARK ZUCKERBERG During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters. But this wasn’t traditional political spending. He funded a targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally nonpartisan — but demonstrably ideological — nonprofit organizations. Analysis conducted by our team demonstrates this money significantly increased Joe Biden’s vote margin in key swing states. In places like Georgia, where Biden won by 12,000 votes, and Arizona, where he won by 10,000, the spending likely put him over the top. This unprecedented merger of public election offices with private resources and personnel is an acute threat to our republic and should be the focus of electoral reform efforts moving forward. The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, since 2014, Facebook has contributed a total of $641,685 to the members of Congress that Zuckerberg is facing this week. The top recipients of that money include Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA). SENATORS WHO RECEIVED EVEN LARGER CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FACEBOOK DIDN’T HOLD BACK The amount of money received didn’t necessarily correlate to the hostility of questions asked by the legislators in Zuckerberg’s first hearing. That said, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) did make a somewhat bizarre pro-Facebook comment, saying, “Some have professed themselves shocked, shocked that companies like Google and Facebook share user data with advertisers. Did any of these individuals stop to ask themselves why Google and Facebook don’t charge for access? Nothing in life is free.” Hatch has taken $15,200 from Facebook since 2014 — the sixth largest amount on the combined committees. But other senators who have received even larger campaign contributions from Facebook didn’t hold back. Cory Booker, who has received $44,025 from Facebook since 2014 (the largest amount), questioned Zuckerberg on the 2016 ProPublica investigation that showed Facebook allowed advertisers to target by race. Kamala Harris, who took the second largest amount ($30,990) grilled the CEO on why Facebook did not notify users in 2015 that Cambridge Analytica had misused their data, causing Zuckerberg to squirm uncomfortably.