(The Center Square) – When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s charity spent at least $8 million funding Michigan elections with unknown strings attached, some lawmakers felt uneasy.
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscella Chan, through their Chicago-based nonprofit, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), contributed $400 million nationwide into the 2020 election.
CTCL said the funds supported local elections, including poll worker recruitment, hazard pay, poll rentals, and nonpartisan voter education to award over 2,500 grants to city and county elections offices nationwide.
The most grants, 474, were awarded to Michigan, CTCL says in its preliminary grants list, followed by Massachusetts with 266 and Maine with 208, according to influencewatch.org.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's charity spent nearly $8 million funding Michigan's elections
- by: Scott McClallen
- 2021-03-16
- Source:
The Center Square
- 03/16/2021
