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by enknamel 3324 days ago
Donations do not imply liking a candidate or party. Large companies will always donate across the board to keep in favor with whoever wins. The government has a huge amount of control over the fate of these companies. That is partly why they have a vested interest in controlling elections and thought.

Twitter isn't laissez-faire with right leaning voices. They actively suppress them. They remove hashtags from trending daily. They mark posts as containing explicit content. It's getting ridiculous how much all of these companies are trying to silence the right.

Facebook will take almost anyone's money on their ads. But they were also caught this last election cycle actively suppressing conservatives. It got so bad Zuckerberg had to come out and do damage control by inviting conservative commentators to a sit-down or piss off half his US userbase.

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I think you're, at best, cherry-picking examples if you think Twitter's explicit content marking is left-leaning bias.