{"id":433781,"date":"2021-04-20T09:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=433781"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:40:03","slug":"reports-facebook-gave-3m-to-ariz-officials-to-boost-democrat-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-facebook-gave-3m-to-ariz-officials-to-boost-democrat-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Facebook gave $3M to Ariz. officials to boost \u2018Democrat vote\u2019"},"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\">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%2Freports-facebook-gave-3m-to-ariz-officials-to-boost-democrat-vote%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=433781&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 id=\"attachment_2400048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2400048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture taken on May 14, 2012 in Paris, shows an illustration made with a figurine set up in front of Facebook\u2019s homepage.\u00a0 (Photo by JOEL SAGET\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED\u00a0 3:12 PM PT \u2013 Monday, April 19, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Election officials in Arizona are suspected of accepting large sums of money from Facebook just ahead of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCenter for Tech and Civic Life or CTCL, funded by Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, is dark, refusing to disclose its donors,\u201d said Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center. \u201cWe\u2019ve studied the data for Arizona and seven more states, highlights are in my written testimony, but the pattern is simple. It\u2019s more likely to find heavily Democratic jurisdictions and do so disproportionately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arizona state lawmakers found Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook gave $3 million to Maricopa County election officials, allegedly to flip it blue in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2400169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2400169\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2400169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2684.jpeg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11:  Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2684.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-944827400-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-944827400-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-944827400.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2400169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Experts warned left-leaning tech giants are seeking to privatize U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverywhere you did have greater turnout in this election versus the 2016 election, but listen to these simple numbers. In the counties that were funded, the Republican votes increased 46 percent more than they increased in the unfunded counties,\u201d Walter explained. \u201cOn the Democrat side, the counties that were funded saw an 81 percent better vote increase than the ones that were not funded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Analysts found dark money from Facebook and other tech giants could be used to buy votes for Democrat candidates, and such funding violates U.S. federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona lawmakers are now pushing to investigate such activity.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fmr-home-of-defense-witness-in-derek-chauvin-trial-vandalized-with-severed-pigs-head-blood\/\">Fmr. 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