When Facebook matters… and when it doesn’t.
Writing in The Federalist, William Doyle describes how Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg helped buy Biden the election:
During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters. But this wasn’t traditional political spending. He funded a targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally non-partisan — but demonstrably ideological — non-profit organizations.
Analysis conducted by our team demonstrates this money significantly increased Joe Biden’s vote margin in key swing states. This unprecedented merger of public election offices with private resources and personnel is an acute threat to our republic, and should be the focus of electoral reform efforts moving forward.
Read the whole thing for details, but even on its surface, the episode makes one marvel that the news media spent years talking about how a very limited amount of Facebook activity ostensibly from Russia helped President Trump cheat, but on this… disinterest!