Reports: Facebook gave $3M to Ariz. officials to boost ‘Democrat vote’

A picture taken on May 14, 2012 in Paris, shows an illustration made with a figurine set up in front of Facebook’s homepage.  (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Election officials in Arizona are suspected of accepting large sums of money from Facebook just ahead of the 2020 election.

“Center for Tech and Civic Life or CTCL, funded by Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, is dark, refusing to disclose its donors,” said Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center. “We’ve studied the data for Arizona and seven more states, highlights are in my written testimony, but the pattern is simple. It’s more likely to find heavily Democratic jurisdictions and do so disproportionately.”

Arizona state lawmakers found Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook gave $3 million to Maricopa County election officials, to flip it blue in the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Experts warned left-leaning tech giants are seeking to privatize U.S. elections.

“Everywhere you did have greater turnout in this election versus the 2016 election, but listen to these simple numbers. In the counties that were funded, the Republican votes increased 46 percent more than they increased in the unfunded counties,” Walter explained. “On the Democrat side, the counties that were funded saw an 81 percent better vote increase than the ones that were not funded.”

Analysts found dark money from Facebook and other tech giants could be used to buy votes for Democrat candidates, and such funding violates U.S. federal law.

Arizona lawmakers are now pushing to investigate such activity.