October 27, 2021

Big Tech Is Canceling Your Voice — and Now Your Vote

Its newfound desire to use hundreds of millions of dollars to tip the scales in our elections is unprecedented.

Americans are aware Big Tech has been censoring, shadow-banning, and/or de-platforming people for years. These social media sites regularly suppress information they don’t like, and outright ban those with views that are antithetical to their ideology.

The argument from the political right and the left is basically that Congress should regulate these entities. Conservatives say more content should be allowed; liberals say there should be much less.

Regardless of any potential congressional regulations, you know Big Tech is shutting down your voice, but what you may not know is that Big Tech is also shutting down your vote.

In the face of an unprecedented, unforeseen current global pandemic, rogue secretaries of state, attorneys general, governors, state supreme courts, election boards, and many others decided to cash in on the left’s well-known and often-used axiom: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

The U.S. Constitution gives the authority to decide the manner in which states conduct elections to state legislatures, but these elected officials used COVID to push radical rule changes that, in many cases, violated their own state law. Simultaneously, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which gave $339.8 billion to state and local governments. After violating laws and passing more than a trillion dollars in aid, it still wasn’t enough for liberals.

Enter Big Tech.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan poured in nearly $400 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) under the guise of helping states conduct elections. CTCL and CEIR, in turn, gave grants to counties under the auspices of taking extraordinary measures to properly handle the election amid the COVID pandemic.

Thanks to the Zuckerberg’s donation — now known as “Zuckerbucks” — 2,500 election departments across 49 states were now able to subvert their election laws. On its face, this seems like an admirable act of charity, administered equally to all states and their people to conduct free and fair elections in the face of a global crisis … until you follow the money.

The Thomas Moore Society and the Amistad Project shed light on this when they released a report in January 2021 showing Zuckerbucks were in fact politically targeted to only benefit certain voters in certain areas — potentially violating the law in the process.

The reports found that in Wisconsin, funds provided allowed the traditionally liberal strongholds of Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine to spend $47 per voter to get out the vote, while traditionally conservative areas of the state were only allocated somewhere between four to seven dollars per voter.

In predominately liberal Delaware County, Pennsylvania, the funds were used to create a high volume of voter drop boxes — one for every four square miles, or one for every 4,000 voters. In the 59 counties carried by President Donald Trump in 2016, there was only one drop box for every 1,100 square miles, or one for every 72,000 voters.

Perhaps more stark is that three Georgia counties, Cobb, Fulton, and Gwinnett — all historically Democrat voting counties — received more than $15 million in grant money from CTCL. That accounted for 76% of President Joe Biden’s vote margin gain relative to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance.

There have also been allegations that election officials were literally bought off with Zuckerberg-funded grant money. Reports have circulated that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson had ties to a 501(c)(3) called the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA), which received $12 million from CEIR. According to the report, the MCELA spent 99% of this money with two political consulting firms that only represented left-leaning clients.

In fact, New York has double the population of Michigan, but received just $5 million — less than half of Michigan’s funding. As conservatives pointed out at the time, if the funds were truly meant “to provide nonpartisan, accurate, and official voting information to the public,” why did more populous but uncompetitive states receive less money?“

Good question.

The concern over Big Tech’s blatant unequal application of its terms of service is a serious problem — as conservative viewpoints and inconvenient truths continue to be crushed across its platforms. However, Big Tech’s newfound desire to use hundreds of millions of dollars to tip the scales in our elections is unprecedented.

And you thought Big Tech was only canceling your voice. Think again.

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