Elon Musk indicated Monday fellow tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help elect Democrats including President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, parroting a misleading assertion fueled by election fraud zealots including former President Donald Trump.
"My understanding is that Zuckerberg spent $400 million in the last election nominally in a get out the vote campaign but really fundamentally in support of Democrats,” Musk said in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson which aired Monday night.
Musk is referring to September and October 2020 donations totaling $419 million Zuckerberg and his wife made to the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Election Innovation & Research, nonprofits dedicated to aid in-person voting.
“Does that sound unbiased to you?" Musk asked Carlson, responding to his own rhetorical question later on Twitter, “Umm … no.”
That repeats a claim most notably endorsed by Trump, who baselessly said in October 2021 Zuckerberg “change[d] the course of a Presidential Election” and is a “criminal;” a 2022 Associated Press fact check found these claims of Zuckerberg swaying the election in favor of Democrats was “missing context” and influenced by false claims of election fraud.
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