As Senator Chuck Schumer’s daughter (pictures below on the left) married Elizabeth Weiland in Brooklyn, NY,  the news was breaking of a cozy relationship between Senator Chuck Schumer and Facebook.

Alison Schumer works for Facebook but what’s more bothersome is that Facebook donated big bucks to Schumer’s campaign coffers. Could this be why Schumer told Senator Warner last year to back off of investigating Facebook’s relationship with Cambridge Analytica? Schumer has been a vocal defender of the social media giant.

City and State NY reports:

OpenSecrets.org, a campaign finance research site run by the Center for Responsive Politics, tracks donations from companies’ employees and owners, their immediate family members, and their PACs. Those linked to Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook were some of Schumer’s biggest donors in tech between 2013 and 2018, according to the research group. Those four companies ranked 8th, 20th, 23rd and 26th, respectively, among the senator’s overall donors.

Our previous report on Schumer’s cozy relationship with Facebook:

President Trump was leaving D.C. for Florida today when a reporter mentioned Julian Assange and the news that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter works at Facebook making six figures as a product marketing manager.  The reporter then asked another question and got an earful from Trump:

“Schumer’s daughter works for Facebook, which I just found out today. And if you look at what Facebook’s been doing, they have some real explaining to do. How they are so Democrat oriented…all of them.”

President Trump has been threatening the social media giant with regulations after noticeable bias against conservatives. The news of cronyism with a leading Democrat is not good news for Facebook.

The news that just keeps getting worse for the social media giant is that Senator Chuck Schumer’s daughter has a high-paying position with Facebook and that Facebook has donated big bucks to the Chuck Schumer campaign.

According to the New York Post:

Facebook employees, including some at the top of its corporate pyramid, have helped fill Schumer’s campaign coffers – and he’s returned the favor by carrying water for the social media giant in Congress, according to a recent report.

And Alison Schumer, the senator’s youngest of two daughters, works as a Facebook product marketing manager – which pays an average of $160,000, according to Glassdoor.com.

“It sure looks hinky,” political strategist Susan Del Percio told The Post. “This is an industry that’s been trying for years to fend off heavy government regulation by actively cultivating relationships with senators and House members.”

Last week, it emerged that Schumer has been a strong advocate of Facebook on Capitol Hill:

When Senate Intel was probing Facebook’s relationship with CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA, Senator Chuck Schumer told Senator MarkWarner to back off.

https://twitter.com/zackstanton/status/1062827820064354306

The plot thickens…

 

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