US Silicon Valley’s major corporate executives and top political operatives are reportedly flexing their muscle in the 2016 campaign with financial contributions to political candidates of both ruling parties.
While a Facebook co-founder announced his plans this month to give heavily to Democratic candidates, the co-founder of LinkedIn offered up to $5 million in an effort to get Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to release his tax returns, Washington-based newspaper The Hill reported Saturday.
According to the report, although most employees at tech companies often contribute to Democratic candidates, there are also those among the tech’s elite that support Republican political campaigns.
Among the mega-donors funneling Silicon Valley capital into politics are Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, a philanthropist and former Wall Street Journal reporter. They announced last week that they would be giving…