{"id":32688,"date":"2020-10-20T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32688"},"modified":"2020-10-20T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:42:25","slug":"big-tech-comes-out-of-the-deep-state-closet-goes-all-in-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32688","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech comes out of the <i>Deep State<\/i> closet, Goes all in against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Big Tech goes all in: Silicon Valley launches $100 million anti-Trump ad blitz \u2013 report<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_32689\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32689\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f8f439c2030277a5e3da685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f8f439c2030277a5e3da685.jpg 540w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f8f439c2030277a5e3da685-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO \u00a9 AFP \/ Getty Images;  SCOTT OLSON<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A super PAC bankrolled by Silicon Valley moguls is preparing a massive TV advertising campaign to help boost Democratic candidate Joe Biden against President Donald Trump in the final days before the 2020 US election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The $100-plus million blitz includes at least $22 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, according to an exclusive report from Recode, a subdivision of Vox. Another Democratic megadonor involved is former Google and Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, currently advising the Pentagon on technology innovation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1318588732585422853&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F504061-silicon-valley-biden-donations%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1318588732585422853\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Called Future Forward, the super PAC has filed federal paperwork on Tuesday disclosing that it has raised $66 million between September 1 and October 15. It has contracted for $106 million of TV ads between September 29 and November 3, according to media tracking firm Advertising Analytics. This makes it the largest Biden booster outside the Democrats\u2019 campaign itself, already a fundraising juggernaut.<\/p>\n<p>The massive haul is intended to fund last-minute TV ads to help Biden in key battleground states, relying on Moskovitz\u2019s data-driven approach to most efficient advertising. Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s former business partner, who left Facebook to launch a management software company called Asana in 2008, has reportedly calculated the optimal\u00a0<em>\u201ccost-per-net-Democratic-vote\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in key ad markets and is spending accordingly, Recode reported.<\/p>\n<p>Moskovitz has also donated millions to the Voter Participation Center and Vote Tripling, pro-Democrat groups that work on voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Recode also reported that Future Forward\u00a0<em>\u201chas been recommended in private communications by the team of Reid Hoffman.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0He is the LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic megadonor previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/447540-linkedin-roy-moore-bots\/\">caught funding<\/a>\u00a0a disinformation campaign during the 2017 special Senate election in Alabama, in which a company called New Knowledge created a Twitter army of &#8216;Russian bots&#8217; pretending to back the Republican candidate. It was unclear from the Recode story whether Hoffman had contributed any funding to Moskovitz\u2019s super PAC.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Schmidt has backed the Democrats before, going so far as serving as an adviser to Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign and showing up on election night at her headquarters with a campaign\u00a0<em>\u201cstaff\u201d<\/em>\u00a0badge. Moskovitz himself sank\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/358840-facebook-cofounder-hillary-donor\/\">$20 million<\/a>\u00a0into Clinton\u2019s campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just CEOs of Big Tech that are boosting the Democrats, either. In June, the Center for Responsive Politics \u2013 which runs OpenSecrets.org \u2013 revealed that employees of Amazon, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft have donated $15 million to Democrats and only $3 million to Republicans. At some companies, the ratio was far higher \u2013 98 percent at Netflix and 77 percent at Amazon, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The skew in donations has only fueled the Republicans\u2019 frustration with censorship on the social media platforms. In the name of preventing\u00a0<em>\u201cdisinformation,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Facebook, Google and Twitter have engaged in mass purges of users in the past months, repeatedly changed the rules as to what would be allowed regarding the election, and censored government officials \u2013 including President Trump himself \u2013 for what they decided was &#8216;problematic&#8217; content.<\/p>\n<p>So far, however, the GOP\u2019s response has been confined to words. The practical steps undertaken by the Trump administration \u2013 such as Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/504020-google-antitrust-lawsuit-us-govt\/\">antitrust action<\/a>\u00a0against Google by the Department of Justice \u2013 appears to be following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/502752-silicon-valley-antitrust-democrats\/\">recommendations<\/a>\u00a0of House Democrats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1318596642300448771&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F504061-silicon-valley-biden-donations%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1318596642300448771\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/504061-silicon-valley-biden-donations\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/504061-silicon-valley-biden-donations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech goes all in: Silicon Valley launches $100 million anti-Trump ad blitz \u2013 report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}