{"id":84629,"date":"2023-05-02T00:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=84629"},"modified":"2023-05-02T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:44:00","slug":"facebook-was-the-main-donor-to-a-group-that-fought-antitrust-reforms-in-2020-and-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2023\/facebook-was-the-main-donor-to-a-group-that-fought-antitrust-reforms-in-2020-and-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook was the main donor to a group that fought antitrust reforms in 2020 and 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) An advocacy group backed by Facebook received a $34 million donation from an anonymous donor as it waged a battle against antitrust legislation that would have more tightly regulated the tech industry. A person who works with the group, American Edge Project, told CNBC that the $34 million was from Facebook. This person declined to be named in order to speak freely about the group\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/05\/01\/facebook-primary-donor-group-antitrust-fight.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) An advocacy group backed by Facebook received a $34 million donation from an anonymous donor as it waged a battle against antitrust legislation that would have more tightly regulated the tech industry. A person who works with the group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84631,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84629\/revisions\/84631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}