Facebook's $6,000 donation to Nunes throws its self-proclaimed neutrality into question

[turbinetree]

Nunes is one of the loudest critics of the Russia investigation, in which Facebook is inextricably linked.

ADDY BAIRD JUL 16, 2018, 11:43 AM

Facebook has donated thousands of dollars in recent months to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), one of the leading congressional voices fighting Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential presidential obstruction.

In a tweet Monday morning, social bookmarking site Pinboard noted the social media giant — which is intertwined with the Russia investigation over its failure to prevent fake Russian troll accounts from spreading disinformation during the 2016 election — had reportedly made a $1,000 donation to the Devin Nunes Campaign Committee on June 29.

Facebook has donated a total of $6,000 to Nunes’ committee for the general election cycle in 2018.

Nunes is one of the members of Congress most skeptical of the Russia investigation. Most recently, he criticized Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian officials charged with hacking the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee servers, as well as the email accounts of Hillary Clinton campaign staffers, calling the indictment “ridiculous.”

https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-nunes-donations-815125713c5b/


Hey face book....................do you now think the Nunes traitor and the trump traitor is just a coincidence, did you see or hear what happened in Helsinki, with a treasonous sexual predator telling the world that "We the People" of the United States and our institutions to serve and protect the Constitution----------------are and mean nothing to him, and you are giving money to an enabler of this shit........................


https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections

[Anon-C]

1. God Almighty people please get the fuck off of FB!

Please!

[MagickMuffin]

2. Protecting his role in all this

sounds about right, throw money at the candidate who can make it all disappear. Poof!!!

[empedocles]

3. 'The plot thickens'

still more and more.

[Le Gaucher]

4. I have been Facebook free for 4 months now.

Feels great!!

[hlthe2b]

5. For the life of me, I don't understand why progressives have not run from Facebook PERMANENTLY

It is our OWN "WHat's the Matter With Kansas", the famous Thomas Frank book that explores why conservatives continue to support policies that hurt them. Well, Facebook is hurting ALL of us and merely making its founder more and more wealthy.

I've never registered and never will, though it has cost me both professionally and personally. I remain glad of that.

[turbinetree]

7. Same here.................when I looked at the program format in the beginning , I said to myself

this platform is going to be dangerous ..................and it was and still is.................they are still essence enabling treason...........

[blueinredohio]

6. Sadly I have a lot of family members who still use Facebook

Their excuse is " I only use it to keep in contact with family" They have to call me because I don't and never have used Facebook.