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Facebook, Google Pledged $700M to ‘Buy Off the Press’ Since 2018
NewsBusters ^ | 10/26/2020 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 10/26/2020 8:10:46 AM PDT by JV3MRC

If the liberal media’s relative silence towards Facebook and Google’s Orwellian behavior this electoral cycle seemed deafening, perhaps it's because many outlets have received big loads of cash from them.

A Washington Monthly report headlined “How Facebook and Google Buy Off the Press” said that by 2018, both Big Tech companies “were already among the largest funders of journalism in the world.” However, since then, both corporations “have gone on to promise a total of $700 million in funding for journalism, not counting other ‘undisclosed’ funds and in-kind contributions.” What makes this funding dubious, is that “[j]ust who is receiving exactly how much from Google and Facebook remains hard to establish.” [Emphasis added.]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2020election; bigtech; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; facebook; fascistbook; google; journalism; landslide; markzuckerberg; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trumplandslide; twitter; zuckerberg

1 posted on 10/26/2020 8:10:46 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Facebook = Fakebook
Google = Gulag
Twitter = Twaddle
YouTube = Screwtube
Instegram = Insanegram


2 posted on 10/26/2020 8:24:20 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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Facebook, Google Pledged $700M to ‘Buy Off the Press’ Since 2018

That further supports my long-held contention that all of the MSM, education, Hollyweird, pro sports leagues, pro-Biden Deep-State government, Big Tech & social news networks are totally against Trump.

It also doesn't help that virtually every major corporation in the U.S. has been very heavily promoting, financing, and defending the violent Black Lives Matter wild thug mob rioter (Biden-voter) organization in this election year.

3 posted on 10/26/2020 8:40:57 AM PDT by gw-ington
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Of course, they were merely accepting the bribes for stuff they'd have gladly done for free.

4 posted on 10/26/2020 9:16:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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They just pulled the plug on an outfit that George Webb was working with — young kids. Corporate didn’t like the idea of funding non-liberal news!


5 posted on 10/26/2020 9:55:07 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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