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Toyota Faces Boycott Calls After Alex Mooney Donation: I Don t Support Sedition
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Toyota, which said it would review its political donations in the wake of the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, has faced blowback on social media for donating $1,000 to a lawmaker who contested the certification of the Electoral College results.
After the fatal events of January 6, Toyota said it would evaluate its political donations, with a spokesperson telling E&E News a week after the violence: Given recent events and the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, we are assessing our future PAC criteria.
Internet companies courting conservatives while cracking down on content Follow Us
Question of the Day By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Several of the largest internet companies are courting conservative allies, even as they crack down on content from the right after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Some have recruited employees from conservative groups while others are donating to Republican candidates.
After the Capitol riot by supporters of President Trump, Google paused political donations, removed the social media platform Parler which was popular with conservatives from its app store, and Google-owned YouTube booted Mr. Trump off its service.
How does all these questions relate?
In the first quarter of 2021, Facebook, Google, and several other major American companies donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Republican political group that advocates for voter suppression laws around the United States.
Facebook donated $50,000, and Google donated $20,000, according to a new report from Popular Information, alongside a $50,000 donation from AT&T and $100,000+ donations from two major pharmaceutical companies: Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca.
The organization that received those donations the Republican State Leadership Committee describes itself as, “the largest national organization focused on electing Republicans to state offices in every corner of the nation.”
What the complacency caucus gets wrong about the Georgia voting law Meanwhile, don t give Coca-Cola, Delta too much credit for resistance. They were meek when it mattered most.
By Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times April 8, 2021 11:38am Text size Copy shortlink:
In accordance with the well-known principle that every political outrage eventually yields to an equal and opposite complacency, the initial uproar over Georgia s voter law has lately given way to a spate of it s-not-that-bad-after-all punditry takes.
A representative example of this comes from Will Saletan of Slate, who in a facile Twitter thread divides the law s provisions into good stuff, bad stuff and overhyped.