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    4 months ago

    CNN doesn’t donate but as your screenshot shows, it’s parent company Warner Brothers Discovery.

    Here are their tiny political contributions:

    https://wbd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WBD_Political_Contributions_June_30_2023.pdf

    Maybe look into AT&T, but I already did and they watch out it’s 50:50.

    Your screenshot (which I wouldn’t count a source without a link) seems to be wrong and way outdated, since it isn’t called Time Warner since 2018, but I suppose the data is way older.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB942887490446554182

    Nov. 18, 1999 12:07 am ET

    WASHINGTON – Time Warner Inc. said it would no longer make large contributions to political parties, unilaterally surrendering a major weapon that companies, unions and other interests use to lobby lawmakers.

    The entertainment conglomerate is the biggest “soft money” donor so far to publicly forswear the practice. Time Warner and Timothy Boggs, its top lobbyist, donated $471,000 to national party committees in the last election cycle, and a like amount to various st