President Biden was clearly the favorite of Twitter officials when it came to campaign donations during the 2020 election cycle.
Twitter employees and their immediate family donated $ 193,443 to Biden’s campaign, compared to $ 3,023 for Trump’s campaign, the records show.
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In fact, Biden was the largest recipient of campaign donations affiliated with Twitter during the 2020 election cycle. However, Twitter employees are nowhere near the top of Biden donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Facebook and Twitter’s actions surrounding the contested election on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 in Washington. (Bill Clark / Pool via AP)
His donations to Democrats versus Republicans were a 98% to 2% split. Twitter employees gave $ 783,990 to Democrats and $ 12,333 to Republicans.
In addition, Twitter gave Biden what Politico called a “priceless” gift when the social media platform banned Trump permanently in early January. Before the ban, Trump’s tweets often shaped the news cycle during his four years in office.
Meanwhile, major technology companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft were among donors to Biden’s inaugural committee, according to a list released by Biden’s Inaugural Committee of all contributors who donated more than $ 200. The list does not specifies how much each donor contributed.
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Big Tech employees have won key positions on the Biden-Harris transition team and Republicans are raising concerns that additions to the team and the next government are “evidence” that Silicon Valley “works hand in hand” with politicians Democrats.
In this archival photo of January 27, 2021, President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders on climate change, in the White House State Dining Room in Washington. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci, Archive)
At least nine members or consultants on the Biden transition team have held previous positions on Facebook, Google or Twitter. Several members of the transition team worked on the Obama administration before joining one of the tech giants and later re-entering politics as part of the Biden team.
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Corporate donations to inaugural committees are not uncommon, and Microsoft was listed as having given $ 500,000 in equipment to Trump’s inaugural committee in 2017, CNBC reported. Google was listed as donating $ 285,000.
Peter Hasson and Brooke Singman of Fox Business, ‘Brittany De Lea and Fox News’, contributed to this report.