Facebook secretly funded campaign to kill anti-Big Tech legislation

Facebook has reportedly secretly funded a nationwide"grassroots" campaign to fight anti-Big Tech antitrust legislation gaining momentum in Congress, using covert operations to try and sway the public against bills that would hurt the company.

The group spent almost $2 million on Facebook ads and more than $70,000 on Google ads, along with placing multiple strategic op-eds to criticize the antitrust bills as hurting the tech sector and allowing China and Russia to dominate the United States in tech innovation. Some of the pro-tech campaigns disclosed American Edge’s financial backing, but none mentioned its relationship to Facebook.

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