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Full Measure After Hours

After Hours: Zuck Bucks in 2020 and What’s Next

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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We dig into the hundreds of millions of dollars Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg poured into the 2020 elections as some states move to limit such donations next time. Subscribe to my two podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.” Leave a review, subscribe and share with your friends! Support independent journalism by visiting the new Sharyl Attkisson store. Order “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson at Harper Collins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound, Bookshop! Visit SharylAttkisson.com and www.FullMeasure.news for original reporting.  Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

0:37.9

Today, Zuck Bucks, the role they played in the last presidential election, and what could be next.

0:44.2

If you're like me, you heard a lot about Zuck Bucks in 2020 both before and after the election.

1:00.1

That was a ton of private money dumped into our election systems state and local across the

1:05.2

country, our public systems, from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, kind of at the last

1:12.2

minute. Many people say it was an unfair attempt to influence the election against Donald Trump.

1:17.5

We all know where Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook stand on such things as their fake fact checks

1:23.3

and the other measures they implement such a censorship is always against one side.

1:28.6

And we know that the Zuck Bucks funded questionable drop boxes and other measures

1:34.3

that critics say made it easy for fraud to take place.

1:38.1

But before we hear from somebody who studied all of this at length and is a critic,

1:42.5

here's what the Zuckerbergs had to say about all of it. By the way, I ask for an interview about

1:47.9

this with Mark Zuckerberg but didn't get it. Here's a comment I got from a spokesman for the

1:54.1

Zuckerberg family. Quote, when our nation's election infrastructure faced unprecedented challenges

2:00.2

due to the pandemic, Mark and Priscilla stepped up to close a funding gap and granted $350

2:07.2

million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life and $69.5 million to the Center for Election

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