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News that Google donated to the inaugural committee comes amid conservative furor after the tech company said it would suspend social media platform Parler s listing from its Play Store, citing a failure to moderate egregious content related to violence at the U.S. Capitol this week.
In addition, Big Tech employees have landed top posts on the Biden-Harris transition team and Republicans are raising concerns that the additions to the team and the next administration are evidence that Silicon Valley works hand in glove with Democratic politicians.
At least nine different Biden transition team members or advisers previously held positions at Facebook, Google or Twitter. And several transition team members worked in the Obama administration before joining one of the tech giants and then later reentering politics as part of the Biden team.
In November, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (left) became the chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, while Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (right) became RAGA s policy chair and chair of the group s Rule of Law Defense Fund, which was among the sponsors of the Trump rally preceding the U.S. Capitol Riot and sent out robocalls urging people to march to the Capitol to stop the steal. (Official portraits.)
After its nonprofit subsidiary promoted lies about election fraud and made a robocall ahead of the Capitol riot urging Trump supporters to march there to stop the steal, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) a political spending group that promotes the election of GOP state AGs is under fire for its role in the campaign to block certification of the presidential election.