But Zuckerberg has been unmoved by legal threats, arguing in a Facebook post expected to go live Tuesday that his decision to fund election administration does not have a partisan political motive. That’s false,” Zuckerberg writes in the post. They gave an addition $50 million to another nonprofit, The Center for Election Innovation and Research, to help secretaries of state with voter education. In August, Facebook removed a Trump post that falsely said children are “almost immune” to covid-19. ADThe election administration donations are coming directly from Zuckerberg and Chan, not their separate philanthropic effort, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).

Source: Washington Post October 13, 2020 09:56 UTC