{"id":1929716,"date":"2023-05-12T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-accidentally-admits-zuckbucks-were-used-to-turn-out-likely-democrat-voters-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:45:40","slug":"wapo-accidentally-admits-zuckbucks-were-used-to-turn-out-likely-democrat-voters-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-accidentally-admits-zuckbucks-were-used-to-turn-out-likely-democrat-voters-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo admits &#8216;Zuckbucks&#8217; influenced Democrat voters in 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fwapo-accidentally-admits-zuckbucks-were-used-to-turn-out-likely-democrat-voters-in-2020%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=1929716&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--><h2>Elon Musk Sparks Controversy with &#8220;Zuckbucks&#8221; Tweet<\/h2>\n<p>Elon Musk caused a stir on Twitter this week when he shared an article from The Federalist about the use of &#8220;Zuckbucks&#8221; to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. The article details how Mark Zuckerberg gave hundreds of millions of dollars to nonprofits leading up to the election, which were then used to change how elections were administered in battleground states. <\/p>\n<h3>Partisan Distribution of Funds<\/h3>\n<p>The grants were heavily skewed toward Democrat-majority counties, making it a massive, privately funded Democrat get-out-the-vote operation. While Musk simply referred to the article as &#8220;interesting,&#8221; Washington Post columnist Philip Bump attempted to discredit The Federalist&#8217;s article and smear Musk. However, Bump openly admits the purpose of &#8220;Zuckbucks&#8221; was to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-upholds-arizona-voter-restrictions-spelling-trouble-for-doj-georgia-voter-rights-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voter Restrictions, Spelling Trouble For DOJ Georgia \u2018Voter Rights\u2019 Lawsuit\">increase voter turnout<\/a> in Democrat-majority areas.<\/p>\n<h3>Admitting the Truth<\/h3>\n<p>While Zuckerberg&#8217;s donations were marketed as a good-faith initiative to ensure Covid didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-accidentally-admits-zuckbucks-were-used-to-turn-out-likely-democrat-voters-in-2020\/\" title=\"WaPo admits 'Zuckbucks' influenced Democrat voters in 2020.\">disrupt local election administration<\/a>, House Republicans later discovered that less than 1% of the funds were spent on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">personal protective equipment<\/a>. The Post is admitting the main purpose of &#8220;Zuckbucks&#8221; was to boost turnout among voters in Democrat strongholds. It&#8217;s a remarkable fact that, for once, the Post got right.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featured in RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review<\/li>\n<li>Serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay informed with The Federalist for more news and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk shared a Federalist article on Twitter this week that detailed how \u201cZuckbucks\u201d were used to influence the outcome of the 2020 election, and leftists are livid. On Tuesday, the Twitter CEO linked to an October 2021 article, written by Federalist contributor William Doyle, that examines how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave\u00a0hundreds of millions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1929717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8394,3652,5216,4912,10363,4223,7115],"class_list":["post-1929716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-zuckbucks","tag-3652","tag-admits","tag-democrat","tag-influenced","tag-voters","tag-wapo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929716","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}