President Biden was the biggest favorite of Twitter employees when it comes to campaign donations during the 2020 election cycle.
Twitter employees and their immediate family members donated $ 193,443 to the Biden campaign, compared to $ 3,023 to the Trump campaign, records show.
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In fact, Biden was the largest recipient of Twitter-affiliated campaign donations during the 2020 election cycle. However, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Twitter employees are nowhere near the top of Biden donors.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified at a distance during a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Facebook and Twitter’s actions surrounding the now-contested election on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 in Washington. (Bill Clark / Pool via AP)
Their donations to Democrats against Republicans were a split of 98% to 2%. Twitter employees gave $ 783,990 to Democrats and $ 12,333 to Republicans.
On top of that, Twitter gave Biden what Politico called a ‘precious’ gift when the social media platform permanently banned Trump in early January. Prior to 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 one of the donors to Biden’s inauguration committee, according to a list released by the Biden Inauguration Committee of all contributors who donated more than $ 200. The list did not specify how much each donor contributed.
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Big Tech employees have earned the best positions in the Biden-Harris transition team, and Republicans are concerned that the addition to the team and the next government is proof that Silicon Valley is “working with democratic politicians.”
On this January 27, 2021, the file photo President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders on climate change in the state dining room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci, file)
At least nine different Biden transition team members or advisers have previously held positions at Facebook, Google or Twitter. Several members of the transition team worked in the Obama administration before joining one of the technology giants and later re-entering politics as part of the Biden team.
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Corporate donations to founding committees are not uncommon, and Microsoft has listed giving $ 500,000 of equipment to Trump’s inauguration committee in 2017, CNBC reports. Google has listed $ 285,000 to give.
Fox Business ‘Brittany De Lea and Fox News’ Peter Hasson and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.