The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (2022)(unherd.com) No one wants to be a bad person, and you probably felt pretty bad when you saw the heart-breaking appeal and just carried on clicking. Wikipedia is midway through a six-week fund-raising drive in Anglophone regions including the United States, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. The banner ads beg for “just £2”, which doesn’t sound like much, for all that free information. But before you start feeling too guilty, it’s worth considering some facts.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Donates $1M to Trump's Inaugural Fund(nytimes.com) Meta said on Wednesday that it had donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, in the latest move by Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, to foster a positive rapport with Mr. Trump.
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Meta donates $1M to Trump fund(bbc.com) Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has donated $1m (£786,000) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump.
The tech bosses who poured $394.1M into US election(theguardian.com) Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this year, according to a Guardian analysis, the bulk of it coming from an enormous donation of about $243m Elon Musk made to Donald Trump’s campaign.