The Biden Inaugural Committee released a list of all contributors who donated over $200, however they failed to specify just how much each contributor donated.
News that Google donated to the inaugural committee comes amid conservative furor after the tech company stated it would suspend social media platform Parler’s listing from its Play Store, citing a failure to moderate "egregious content" related to violence in 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.
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As many as nine, if not more, 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.
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Corporate donations to inaugural committees are not unusual, and Microsoft was listed as giving $500,000 in equipment to Trump's inauguration committee in 2017, CNBC reported. Google was listed as giving $285,000.
Biden received roughly $12 million in contributions from employees in the "Internet" industry during the 2020 campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Other corporations and organizations on the Biden Inaugural Committee's donor list include Comcast, Qualcomm, Boeing, United Food and Commercial Workers and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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The inaugural committee claimed it refused to take money from fossil fuel companies, their executives or PACs organized by them.
This comes as, after years of treating President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of his presidency. The move, which many called long overdue following Wednesday’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, is also a reminder of the enormous power that social-media platforms can wield when they choose. Facebook and Instagram announced Thursday they will bar Trump from posting at least until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
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It remains unclear how the platforms will handle Trump once he leaves office and is no longer shielded from enforcement of most rules by his status as a world leader. And some critics saw the moves as cynical efforts by the companies to position themselves for a post-Trump future.
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In announcing the unprecedented move, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg noted the risk of allowing Trump to use the platform is too great following the president’s incitement of a mob on Wednesday. Zuckerberg said Trump’s account will be locked “for at least the next two weeks” and possibly indefinitely.
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“The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden,” Zuckerberg wrote.
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