{"id":12576,"date":"2018-04-05T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/dark-money-helps-pay-for-pro-trump-facebook-ads\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:16:03","slug":"el-dinero-oscuro-ayuda-a-financiar-los-anuncios-pro-trump-en-facebook","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/dark-money-helps-pay-for-pro-trump-facebook-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"El &#039;dinero oscuro&#039; ayuda a financiar los anuncios pro-Trump en Facebook"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12576","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Millions of dollars from secret donors financed the \"social welfare\" groups that obtained personal information about millions of Americans from Facebook and used it to help Donald Trump win the presidency","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[137,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"La creciente evidencia de que Facebook comparti\u00f3 informaci\u00f3n personal sobre millones de estadounidenses con grupos pol\u00edticos que la usaron para ayudar a elegir al presidente Trump est\u00e1 fortaleciendo los argumentos para exigir a esos grupos que revelen p\u00fablicamente qui\u00e9nes son sus donantes.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2018\/04\/exclusive-robert-mercer-backed-a-secretive-group-that-worked-with-facebook-google-to-target-anti-muslim-ads-at-swing-voters\/\">OpenSecrets.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0reports this morning that Secure America Now, a \u201csocial welfare\u201d organization that during the 2016 presidential campaign produced an incendiary video depicting a future \u201cIslamic States of America,\u201d was largely bankrolled by multimillionaire Republican donor and hedge fund investor Robert Mercer.\r\n\r\nMercer donated more than $22 million to candidates and political committees during the 2016 election cycle, according to public records. His previously undisclosed $2 million gift to Secure America helped that group produce the Islamic States video and direct it at Facebook users in swing states.\r\n\r\nThe donation came to light only because Secure America\u2019s accounting firm neglected to black out Mercer\u2019s name when it provided a copy of its tax return to OpenSecrets. While federal law requires social welfare groups to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS keeps the names secret.\r\n\r\nThey shouldn\u2019t be. Federal election laws mandate disclosure of donations to candidates and political parties; the requirement is based on the principle that voters have a right to know who is spending money to influence our votes and who candidates will be indebted to if they\u2019re elected.\r\n\r\nBut thousands of wealthy political investors like the Mercer family have found a way to hide their political spending in the form of social welfare \u2013 aka \u201cdark money\u201d \u2013 groups like Secure America. Such groups put nearly $176 million into the 2016 campaign.\r\n\r\nTo retain their tax-exempt status and their right to keep their donors secret, the groups are supposed to limit their political expenses to less than half their total spending. Lax enforcement has allowed many of them to do far more than that, however \u2013 an OpenSecrets report in 2016 observed accurately that the IRS and the Federal Election Commission \u201care about as good at effectively policing dark money groups as your cat is at catching reflections on the wall.\u201d\r\n\r\nSome of the social welfare groups take extra care to hide their donors by funneling their contributions into other groups. In addition to the $2 million it received from Mercer, Secure America got $2 million from the 45Committee, another social welfare group which is itself partly funded by still other social welfare groups.\r\n\r\nThe Islamic States video and other political ads purchased by Secure America in 2016 were targeted to show up in the Facebook feeds of voters thought to be receptive to their messages,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-10-18\/facebook-and-google-helped-anti-refugee-campaign-in-swing-states\">Noticias de Bloomberg<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0reported last October. The ads did not mention Trump but their message dovetailed with his campaign pledge to stop all Muslims from immigrating to the U.S..\r\n\r\nFacebook even worked with Secure America to post 12 different versions of the video to test which was most effective, Bloomberg reported.\r\n\r\nMercer is among President Trump\u2019s most prominent financial backers. He also provides the financial muscle for Breitbart News, the pro-Trump website that during the campaign was run by Steve Bannon, who later became Trump\u2019s top political strategist. Bannon left the White House last summer to return to Breitbart but was let go there after author Michael Wolff quoted him making critical comments about the president.\r\n\r\nThe Mercer family also is the financial wellspring of Cambridge Analytical, the London-based firm that purchased personal information on millions of Americans from Facebook and used it to help the Trump campaign target its messages.\r\n\r\n###"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#8216;Dark Money&#8217; Helps Pay for Pro-Trump Facebook Ads - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/el-dinero-oscuro-ayuda-a-financiar-los-anuncios-pro-trump-en-facebook\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#8216;Dark Money&#8217; 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