hn_acker
13 hours ago
> Last election, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t endorse either candidate, didn’t spend billions in support of either candidate, and didn’t turn Facebook or Instagram into campaign sites. What he did do was fund politically neutral voting infrastructure efforts to make sure the 2020 election was free and fair. And for that, he was falsely accused of election interference and tipping the scales to Biden. Donald Trump has accused Zuckerberg of criminal behavior and threatened him with jail time for that effort. And, just recently, under pressure from Rep. Jim Jordan over that funding, Zuckerberg apologized for it and promised never to help fund election infrastructure again.
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> But with Musk… nothing. I’m not saying that there should be Congressional hearings here. There shouldn’t be. Musk has the legal right to do this, and Congress should have no say in the matter. But you also know that’s true about Zuck and his election infrastructure spending (which wasn’t even to benefit either candidate) and the GOP turned it into a whole big thing.
msie
12 hours ago
The GOP are huge hypocrites and they'll complain about anything to take down the libs. People like Zuck have to ignore them.