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Twitter employees are maintaining their torrid pace of 99
percent of their political donations pouring into Democratic
campaigns and committees for the midterm elections, filings show.
The partisan skew of Twitter employees' donations illustrates
the uphill battle facing Elon Musk, who has pledged to make the
company "politically neutral" in order to maintain trust.
Individuals employed by the social media giant have disbursed
1225 donations through ActBlue, the Democrats' central
fundraising platform, totaling $72,296, Federal Election
Commission records show.
Meanwhile, just ten donations from Twitter employees were pushed
through WinRed, the Republicans' fundraising platform, for $505
through the end of March, according to the filings.
This means that Twitter employees have maintained their
astronomical pace of 99 percent of their contributions going
towards Democratic campaigns and committees with just over six
months until the 2022 elections.
Musk said Wednesday that he hopes to drag the company to the
political center. "For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must
be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the
far right and the far left equally," he wrote on Twitter.
"From the top to the bottom, these companies are overwhelmingly
liberal, overwhelmingly pro-Democrat," Dan Gainor of the Media
Research Center previously told Fox News. "At the top, they
contribute to Democrat causes. At the bottom, they contribute to
Democrat causes in overwhelming numbers."
Twitter's board of directors, who accepted Elon Musk's $44
billion offer for the company on Monday, have also showered
Democrats with tens of thousands of dollars in recent elections,
the New York Post reported.
Musk's purchase of the company led to a celebration from
Republican lawmakers, who frequently criticize Twitter for
biased censorship of right-leaning accounts and figures.
"Twitter openly censors speech based on political ideologies and
makes a mockery of our Constitutional liberties," Texas
Republican Senator Ted Cruz tweeted after the deal was announced.
"If Elon Musk can turn that around to actually protect free
speech and encourage open discourse, Twitter's full potential
will be unlocked," Cruz said.
Democrats, meanwhile, argue the platform is not biased against
conservatives.
Paul M. Barrett, a liberal columnist, penned a column for The
Hill this week saying it's "odd" that Republicans often
criticize Twitter of censorship when they enjoy "high levels of
engagement" and popularity on the platform.
Barrett acknowledged a recent study that found Twitter censors
conservative accounts at a higher rate than liberals. He
justified the findings by saying conservatives are "more prone
to amplify misinformation," as the study's authors concluded.
One of the most prominent cases of Twitter bias came during the
2020 election.
A few weeks before election day, The New York Post published
their groundbreaking story about Hunter Biden's laptop. Twitter
and Facebook immediately reacted by restricting the story from
being shared. Twitter also locked the Post's account under the
threat that they must delete their tweets about Hunter Biden.
Twitter also famously banned President Trump after January 6,
2021, yet the outlet allows highly controversial figures,
including dictators and users who've been accused of murder,
free rein to tweet.
Trump told Fox News this week that he does not intend to rejoin
Twitter and instead use his platform TRUTH Social to get his
message out.
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-employees-still-flooding-
democrats-214334453.html
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