{"id":104072,"date":"2020-11-03T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/big-tech-has-overwhelmingly-thrown-its-support-behind-joe-biden\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T15:21:16","slug":"big-tech-has-overwhelmingly-thrown-its-support-behind-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-tech-has-overwhelmingly-thrown-its-support-behind-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"#Big Tech has overwhelmingly thrown its support behind Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Big Tech has overwhelmingly thrown its support behind Joe Biden<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Dustin-Moskovitz.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Joe Biden has seen major support from one constituency in particular in the lead-up to the 2020 election: Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley have lent their voices \u2014 and bank accounts \u2014 to the Democratic candidate, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/02\/tech-billionaire-2020-election-donations-final-tally.html\">CNBC reports<\/a>, with almost none of them throwing their financial support behind Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who is now CEO of workplace management <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> Asana, has spent $24 million in support of Biden, while former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has spent $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has donated $5 million, including to the Senate Majority PAC which supports Democratic candidates in close races, while LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has opened up his wallet to the tune of $14 million.<\/p>\n<p>The rank and file have followed suit industrywide. A whopping 98 percent of all contributions from employees at tech companies went to Democrats, the Center for Responsive Politics reports, including donations to campaigns as well as political groups.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest donation to Republicans in the tech sector came from Peter Thiel, who earlier this year donated $2 million to Kris Kobach\u2019s doomed Senate effort in Kansas.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/03\/big-tech-has-overwhelmingly-thrown-its-support-behind-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Big Tech has overwhelmingly thrown its support behind Joe Biden&#8221; Joe Biden has seen major support from one constituency in particular in the lead-up to the 2020 election: Big Tech. Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley have lent their voices \u2014 and bank accounts \u2014 to the Democratic candidate, CNBC reports, with almost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Dustin-Moskovitz.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[78292,71127,4941,991,77959,33355],"class_list":["post-104072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-3-20","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-political-action-committees","tag-silicon-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}