Big Tech opponent Bernie Sanders raises more money from Big Tech employees than anyone else

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Big Tech opponent Bernie Sanders raises more money from Big Tech employees than anyone else

Sanders, an avowed democratic socialist, has been highly critical of tech companies. Their employees don’t seem to mind.

By Theodore Schleifer and Rani Molla  Feb 6, 2020, 1:30pm EST


https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/6/21125684/bernie-sanders-tech-employees-donations-andrew-yang-amazon-google-facebook-apple

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Despite his criticisms of companies like Amazon, Bernie Sanders is raising more money from Big Tech than any other 2020 presidential candidate.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter employees funneled almost $270,000 into the Sanders campaign during the last three months of 2019, according to new fundraising disclosures filed this weekend. Almost half of that money came from employees of Google, according to an analysis for Recode by GovPredict.

Looking at contributions from workers at five large companies doesn’t tell the complete story of Silicon Valley’s financial support. But it offers one concrete way to stack-rank how the “tech industry” — so nebulously defined — is splitting when it comes to political support.


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All told, the new data shows how the rank and file at Big Tech companies are rallying behind some of the candidates who are the least friendly to Big Tech and to the current system of capitalism more broadly. Sanders, an avowed democratic socialist, emerged in the last three months of the year as one of the campaign’s frontrunners and is now, for the first time, outraising other candidates with small donations from these tech employees and others.


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[James48]

1. Everybody loves Bernie.

Because he carries a message that resonates across all parts of the political spectrum.

[JoeOtterbein]

2. "One of these things is...

...not like the other."

(ht to the Foos)

[George II]

3. So when other candidates get contributions from "tech companies", "wall street", etc....

it's from Corporate CEOs, when Sanders gets them its from "employees"! I've been saying that for a few years now, contributions from "Big Pharma" could be from shelf stockers at CVS, "the petroleum industry" can be from gas station mechanics, etc.

Glad you pointed that out there.

[Nanjeanne]

4. It's great that workers from all industries knows Bernie is fighting for them.

[Cal Carpenter]

5. Amazon employs close to a million people iirc

The rank and file workers at these companies are often their biggest critics. Bernie criticizes the companies' near-monopolies and labor problems.

Why the info in the OP would surprise anyone or be seen as untoward baffles me.

[lunasun]

6. Workers of America unite !

[Autumn]

7. He's for the employees and they know it. The corporations making billions and not paying taxes and

have labor issues are the ones he's criticizing.

[krissey]

9. Same thing with every other candidate that gets money from wall street and corporations. Right?

[DBoon]

8. beacause nobody knows better how Big Tech abuses our system

than the employees who work for them.