{"id":1433998,"date":"2022-04-12T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433998"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:00:17","slug":"citizens-united-celebrates-major-victory-on-halting-zuckerberg-money-influencing-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citizens-united-celebrates-major-victory-on-halting-zuckerberg-money-influencing-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens United Celebrates &#039;Major Victory&#039; on Halting Zuckerberg Money Influencing Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcitizens-united-celebrates-major-victory-on-halting-zuckerberg-money-influencing-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433998&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mark-Zuckerberg-speaks-to-Congress-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Citizens United declared a \u201cmajor victory\u201d on Tuesday following news that the Center for Technology and Civil Life (CTCL), the organization partly responsible for distributing Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s $400 million grants for election efforts before the 2020 election, would cease to engage in similar behavior in the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Zuckerberg-linked non-profit organization, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10709181\/Zuckerberg-money-wont-round-aid-elections.html\">not<\/a> distribute grants as it did in the 2020 election, according to reports. Rather, it will focus on another program: An \u201c$80-million, five-year effort is aimed to create a network for the nation\u2019s thousands of local election officials, who can apply for aid to improve their technology and processes,\u201d according to the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The news comes less than two weeks after the documentary film\u00a0from Citizens United Productions,\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/citizensunitedmovies.com\/pages\/rigged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>Rigged: The Zuckerberg-Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump<\/em><\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/31\/documentary-blows-the-lid-off-the-400-million-zuckerberg-effort-to-elect-biden\/\">details<\/a> just how Zuckerberg spent\u00a0$400 million on the 2020 presidential election in an effort to bolster then-candidate Joe Biden and quash then-President Donald Trump. The film premiered in Mar-a-Lago on April 5, and viewers can watch it at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/citizensunitedmovies.com\/pages\/rigged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">www.Rigged2020.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/31\/documentary-blows-the-lid-off-the-400-million-zuckerberg-effort-to-elect-biden\/\">explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The explosive documentary details just how these left-wing operatives sprinkled \u201cZuck Bucks\u201d in various areas around the country to influence the election. All of this is documented via 990 forms non-profit groups file with the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the documentary \u201ctraces the river of cash flowing from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to a pair of 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR).\u201d Interestingly, the Chan Zuckerberg Institute happens to involve a number of well-connected Democrat players, including former President Obama\u2019s former campaign manager, David Plouffe, whom a press release describes as the institute\u2019s \u201cStrategist in Residence.\u201d Joel Benenson, the chief strategist for twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, also conveniently served as an adviser at the institute.<\/p>\n<p>The CTCL, which received roughly $328 million in Zuckerberg money, awarded about\u00a02,500 grants around the country. And while Zuckerberg\u2019s team claims that Trump areas were awarded more money than Biden areas, the documentary explains how that assertion is \u201cenormously, and perhaps purposely, misleading, because of the approximately 160 grants of $400,000 or more \u2013 totaling some $270 million \u2013 an incredible 92 percent of those funds went to jurisdictions carried by Joe Biden in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Citizens United declared the CTCL\u2019s decision a \u201cmajor victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly what we were trying to achieve with our film \u2013 to shine a light on what Mark Zuckerberg did to fund voter turnout operations to elect Joe Biden by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Democrat areas in get-out-the-vote efforts,\u201d Citizens United President David N. Bossie, who narrates the documentary, said.<\/p>\n<p>Bossie explained in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Zuckerberg money turned what should be neutral government offices into ground game field offices, effectively, for the Biden campaign. It\u2019s wrong for any private individual to undermine the independence of elections offices, and the announcement that it will stop is an admission that we\u2019re right. Hopefully, the media will not wait to give this the attention it deserves, like they did when they suppressed the story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Zuckerberg-funded plan was obviously a Democrat voter turnout operation from the beginning. They hired David Plouffe, Barack Obama\u2019s campaign manager, as \u2018strategist in residence,&#8217;\u201d Bossie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the news that they\u2019re stopping the grants was announced by a spokesman, Ben LaBolt, who has worked for Democrats his whole career, including for Obama and Biden,\u201d Bossie added. \u201cIt was transparently a Democrat ground game effort and we exposed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the tech billionaire attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/01\/mark-zuckerberg-attempts-to-dismiss-documentary-exposing-his-400-million-effort-to-elect-biden\/\">dismiss<\/a> the film prior to its premiere, to no avail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens United declared a \u201cmajor victory\u201d on Tuesday following news that the Center for Technology and Civil Life (CTCL), the organization partly responsible for distributing Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s $400 million grants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}