President Biden was clearly the favorite of Twitter employees when it came 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, the data shows.
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In fact, Biden was the largest recipient of Twitter-affiliated campaign donations during the 2020 election cycle. However, Twitter’s employees are nowhere near the top of Biden donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Facebook and Twitter’s actions surrounding the closely contested election on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 in Washington. (Bill Clark / Pool via AP)
Their donations to Democrats versus Republicans were a 98% to 2% split. Twitter employees gave $ 783,990 to Democrats and $ 12,333 to Republicans.
Additionally, Twitter gave Biden what Politico called a “ priceless ” gift when the social media platform definitively banned Trump earlier in January. Prior to the ban, Trump’s tweets often shaped the news cycle during his four years in office.
Meanwhile, major tech companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, were among the donors to Biden’s inaugural committee, according to a list released by Biden’s Inaugural Committee of all employees who donated more than $ 200. The list did not state how much each donor contributed.
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Big Tech employees have been given top positions on the Biden-Harris transition team, and Republicans are concerned that the additions to the team and the next government are “proof” that Silicon Valley is working “hand in hand” with Democratic politicians.
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At least nine different Biden transition team members or advisers 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 inauguration committees are not uncommon, and Microsoft was listed as donating $ 500,000 worth of equipment to Trump’s inauguration committee in 2017, CNBC reported. Google was on the list with $ 285,000.
Fox Business ‘Brittany De Lea and Fox News’ Peter Hasson and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.