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Are we sure this is not donation match?


Do you have any reason to believe it is? The article contains interviews from spokespersons of some of the charities in question and Bloomberg asked Facebook/Google for comment. Surely if it was simply matching donations, someone in PR for one of these organizations would have derailed this entire article by pointing that out?


There is a long standing tradition of companies funding "third party" groups with essentially the opposite naming to what they're actually lobbying for.

FUD / message control / obfuscation is the name of the game.

Non-profits should be automatically named <sponsor>'s <name of group> - that would at least make it a little more obvious whose message you're getting.




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