It took records released from the Federal Election Commission to learn that executives from Facebook and Twitter donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020, while also using their platforms to suppress negative information about Biden and his family.
David Fischer, the chief revenue officer of Facebook, donated $2,800 to Biden on April 22, 2020.
Facebook vice presidents Gene Alston, Michael Verdu, Shahriar Rabii and T.T. Khurana also gave the maximum contribution of $2,800 to the Biden campaign.
Instagram’s chief operating officer, Marne Levine, donated the maximum amount to Biden.
The New York Post was specifically targeted prior to the election as Twitter deleted the news outlet’s account after it reported on Hunter Biden’s laptop, and prevented any account from sharing the story.
According to FEC records, Facebook’s vice president of public policy and chief privacy officer, Erin Egan, donated nearly $100,000 to Democrats and Biden during the last weeks of the presidential contest.
Since then, repeated failures by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to maintain oversight over America’s campaign finance laws has resulted in an explosion in secret spending, rigging politics in favor of special interests.
Cleverjourneys.com relies on data and information from government agencies to report truth. A good source when the federal bureaucracy gets in the way is to rely on Open Secrets.
“Voters have a right to know where parties and campaigns are getting their donations from so that they can make clear-eyed assessments of ads and other communications from those entities on their way to the voting booth,” says Trevor Potter, Campaign Legal Center President and Republican former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission.
“Unfortunately, national political party committees currently have free reign to hide information about funds added to and taken from supercharged, special-purpose accounts because of the FEC’s failure to require transparency,” Potter revealed. “The FEC must do its job and stop delaying voters’ access to the detailed and accurate campaign finance information they need to make informed decisions.”
Each national party currently operates up to seven special-purpose accounts.
An individual can contribute up to $247,800 per account, or over $1.7 million total, to a single party for the current two-year 2023-2024 election cycle. But inconsistent reporting practices by national party committees prompted CLC and OpenSecrets to file a rulemaking petition in 2019 with the FEC.
Even after two subsequent comments to require detailed reporting of all monetary transactions involving these accounts with the goal of increasing transparency, there has been nothing but crickets from the FCA.
The FEC’s non-response to CLC and OpenSecrets for over four years prompted both organizations to jointly file a lawsuit challenging the agency’s unreasonable delay in addressing this matter.
According to an Open Secrets release, “As the sole agency tasked with enforcing federal campaign finance laws, the FEC needs to provide rules that ensure national political party committees can follow the transparency requirements previously amended by FECA. The current system makes it easy for these entities to pick and choose how they report, to the detriment of a transparent and more functional electoral system.”
“The 2024 elections are around the corner, but the FEC continues to drag its feet on creating long-overdue disclosure rules,” said Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director of OpenSecrets.
“OpenSecrets is proud to join Campaign Legal Center in calling on the FEC to finally ensure that voters have the information they need to understand who’s paying for our elections and to consider why. We are committed to shining a light on money in politics, and this lawsuit underscores the necessity of a transparent campaign finance system to do so. Without the FEC’s action, the American people are left in the dark about the true sources of funding behind political party committees.”
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Oh boy, here it comes. The truth will out; that dam is leaking a little more. I’ll bet the MSM and the people they shield have knocking knees about now. Chattering teeth. Sweating bullets. I love that meme; that whole thing of hiding, blocking in plain sight and then telling us we’re the crazy ones.
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