NEWS —
Silicon Valley megadonors like Dustin Moskovitz have quietly unleashed a $100 million anti-Trump TV campaign.
It's a massive, last-minute play that is totally under the radar. The super PAC has raised $65 million in 45 days.
Exclusive here —> https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
Silicon Valley megadonors like Dustin Moskovitz have quietly unleashed a $100 million anti-Trump TV campaign.
It's a massive, last-minute play that is totally under the radar. The super PAC has raised $65 million in 45 days.
Exclusive here —> https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
A #TXSen scoop —
You know that play by Democrats to boost MJ Hegar in Texas?
Senate Majority PAC announced a $8.6 million investment.
But in reality, Democratic donors have been pitched on a $28 MILLION buy in Texas.
We saw the confidential memo.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
You know that play by Democrats to boost MJ Hegar in Texas?
Senate Majority PAC announced a $8.6 million investment.
But in reality, Democratic donors have been pitched on a $28 MILLION buy in Texas.
We saw the confidential memo.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
Facebook co-founder Dustin MOSKOVITZ has put at least $20 million into the super PAC Future Forward.
It's Moskovitz's single biggest play yet in the 2020 cycle.
And it's a bet by the billionaire that what matters more than anything else is late TV ads. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
It's Moskovitz's single biggest play yet in the 2020 cycle.
And it's a bet by the billionaire that what matters more than anything else is late TV ads. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
Dustin Moskovitz's team — led by @otis_reid — has read the academic literature closely and concluded that TV ads really do work.
And so they've been telling allies throughout the year that they wanted to spend big money on TV — very late in the cycle.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
And so they've been telling allies throughout the year that they wanted to spend big money on TV — very late in the cycle.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
The super PAC Future Forward has $106 million booked on television over the last six weeks of the election, per @Ad_Analytics.
That's almost four times as much as the next biggest pro-Biden super PAC.
A pretty crazy amount. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
That's almost four times as much as the next biggest pro-Biden super PAC.
A pretty crazy amount. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
Right on cue, here’s another massive advertising drop from Future Forward — $37 million — that just landed this evening. https://twitter.com/catargetbot/status/1318722548373229568
Biggest donors to Future Forward, the Democratic super PAC, over the last six weeks:
1. Facebook founder Dustin Moskovitz — $21 million
2. Twilio founder @jeffiel and his wife, Erica — $6 million
3. Crypto guy @SBF_Alameda — $5 million https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
1. Facebook founder Dustin Moskovitz — $21 million
2. Twilio founder @jeffiel and his wife, Erica — $6 million
3. Crypto guy @SBF_Alameda — $5 million https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
Other big donors to Future Forward, the big Silicon Valley super PAC:
— $1 million from Patty Quillin, the wife of Netflix founder Reed Hastings
— $800,000 from Eric Schmidt, the longtime CEO of Google
— $250,000 from @Ev Williams, a founder of Twitter https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley
— $1 million from Patty Quillin, the wife of Netflix founder Reed Hastings
— $800,000 from Eric Schmidt, the longtime CEO of Google
— $250,000 from @Ev Williams, a founder of Twitter https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley