Facebook Is Creating A Political Action Committee
Facebook confirmed that it had filed the required documents to launch its own political-action committee.
The week that President Barack Obama visited Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s home, the social network confirmed that it had filed the required documents to launch its own political-action committee.
It took long enough: After staffing up an office in Washington D.C. and more recently hiring top-notch political publicists including Bill Clinton’s former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart, one might have expected a PAC to have formed ages ago.
The Hill broke the news Monday, and Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes confirmed the formation of the PAC in an e-mailed statement:
Facebook PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy, while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
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