The Daily Mail reported Sunday, April 25, that Twitter executive Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and Patricia Ann Quillin, wife of the billionaire Netflix executive, have all made generous donations to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors ( Patrisse Cullors’ political action committee and related charities have made generous donations totaling $7.5 million.
Cullors is a strong advocate of “net neutrality,” a policy that would require ISPs not to charge differently for different users, content, sites, platforms, applications, types of access devices or modes of communication, and would prohibit ISPs from charging for the massive amounts of data sent by Netflix and social media sites, to the financial benefit of the Internet giants. But “net neutrality” does not impose “content neutrality” requirements on content providers like Twitter and Facebook, giving the web giants broad immunity in determining what content they are allowed to post on their platforms.
This close relationship has even allowed Facebook and Twitter to censor criticism of Cullers on their platforms, with Facebook even blocking users from sharing Daily Mail and New York Post articles about Cullers’ expensive properties. However, black media outlets like Black Enterprise, which covered the controversial article, were still allowed to share it on Facebook.
According to public records found by the Daily Mail, the 36-year-old Facebook co-founder Moskowitz, who has a net worth of nearly $20 billion, has been the most generous donor to Cullers, giving more than $5.5 million from 2017 to 2020, with donations going to Dignity and Power Now, a nonprofit Cullers founded, as well as to the organization Cullers co-founded to lobby civilians. Cullers co-founded Reform LA Jails, a political action committee that lobbies for civilian oversight of the LAPD.
Twitter CEO Dorsey, who has a net worth of $14 billion, last year provided a total of $7.5 billion to The Movement for Black Lives, founded by Black Lives Matter and Cullers, through his “Startsmall” philanthropic initiative. The Movement for Black Lives, which was founded by Kules and Black Lives Matter, has given a total of $1.5 million.
Quillen, the wife of $6.4 billion Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, donated $250,000 to Cullers’ Los Angeles Prison Reform organization in 2020.
Cullers described herself as a ‘trained Marxist’ in 2015 and elaborated on her views last December, saying, ‘I do believe in Marxism.
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