Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, October 24th.

Today on Forbes, How Steve Balmer has spent $100 million in a new twist on political giving.

Plenty of billionaires put money into politics,

and they all pick a team when they do so.

George Soros, Tom Steyer, and Reed Hoffman,

all don blue caps before cutting checks to liberal super PACs,

while Charles Koch, the Walton siblings, and Elon Musk, the world's richest man,

are all lined up behind Republicans.

The exception who proves the rule, though. are all lined up behind Republicans.

The exception who proves the rule, though,

may be Steve Balmer, the former Microsoft CEO

who thinks he can make a mark on politics

by combating misinformation in a strictly nonpartisan way to help

voters sift fact from fiction. Speaking to Forbes this week and paraphrasing the

fourth US president,

Balmer said,

quote,

James Madison said that a popular government,

without information or the ability to go get it,

is a prelude to a farce or a tragedy or both.

Come on, it is the government's job from the start to provide data to the populace.

However, after he stepped down from leading Microsoft in 2014, and his wife Connie pushed him to get more

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