[bakugo]

As stated in tweet #11, Twitter is overwhemingly staffed by people of one political orientation, and the company as a whole would thus have no issue with helping their political party win the election. They had no reason to sue.

[anoonmoose]

And that is completely legal and allowed under the First Amendment.

[archagon]

> Twitter is overwhemingly staffed by people of one political orientation

Where is this information coming from?

[bakugo]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598829996264390656

[archagon]

This chart says nothing about staffing, and the comment itself is unsourced.

[itsyaboi]

I'm going to assume that you are confused by the linked chart and are not being intentionally obtuse.

The chart displays a breakdown of total employee contributions to the two political parties. As you can see, the "% to democrats" column contains 95%+ for the last 4 years. It would be safe to assume that this metric is a reasonable proxy for Twitter staff's political leanings.

Just to be safe I recommend you review the suite guidelines, specifically about assuming good faith when replying to comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[archagon]

Fair enough that I misread the chart, but are we sure that those contributions are evenly distributed throughout the employee population and not, for example, mostly from executives? I can't tell where this data is sourced from.

[spaced-out]

>It would be safe to assume that this metric is a reasonable proxy for Twitter staff's political leanings.

No it wouldn't be because it doesn't way what percent of employees donate at all. I assume the percentage is pretty low because it's <$200,000 going to Democrats from the entire company.

[welterde]

Ignoring that we have no idea where the data ultimately comes from (or are private contributions public in the US?) it is highly misleading by omission. If we look at the linked page [1] we see that 2014 and 2016 much higher fractions went to the Republicans (31% in 2016 and 11% in 2014) with the total contributions varying wildly from year to year, but the chart was cut to show single-digit values only.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/totals?id=D00006711...

[shagie]

As part of the donating to a political campaign, that information is required to ensure it is a real person donating, prevent employees from prohibited companies from donating (e.g. federal contractors have a conflict of interest) and preventing or recording coercion from management to donate a particular way.

Consider https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dscc-ads-ga - go through the pay with card and stop before you actual enter in any details.

The page will look like https://imgur.com/sNJFkjS

https://www.quora.com/U-S-Presidential-Campaign-Donations-wh...

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-r...

> For each contribution that exceeds $200, either by itself or when added to the contributor’s previous contributions made during the same calendar year, records must identify that contribution by:

Amount; Date of receipt; and Contributor’s full name and mailing address, occupation and employer. If a person has already contributed an aggregate amount of over $200 during a calendar year, each subsequent contribution, regardless of amount, must be identified in the same way.

Please note that contributions to authorized committees are aggregated on a calendar-year basis for recordkeeping purposes, but are aggregated on a per-election basis for purposes of monitoring contribution limits, and on an election-cycle basis for reporting purposes.

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And thus open secrets is getting the aggregate data that and releasing that.

[RavingGoat]

Are you actually shocked that intelligent people are more progressive?

[dd36]

See Fox News…

[bakugo]

What does fox news have to do with this?

[dd36]

A media company favoring a political party is not illegal. It’s indeed quite normal. That said, removing revenge porn isn’t favoring a political party.

[pstuart]

Fox does not "favor" the GOP. It is an instrument of the GOP.

[dd36]

True. Same difference.