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Rebekah Mercer Orchestrates Parler’s Return

February 24, 2021 at 3:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “When social media website Parler’s founding CEO John Matze was pushed out last month, it was at the direction of a quiet but powerful political megadonor backing the right-leaning site. Rebekah Mercer … increasingly pulls the strings at the company.”

“Now Mercer, who is credited with helping get Donald Trump elected president in 2016, is working to revive the site. … It’s the latest in a long line of maneuvers by the Mercer family to create an alternative media industry that pushes a version of the news that fits with their right-wing, populist political agenda — while keeping a low profile themselves.”

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Rebekah Mercer

Facebook Fallout Deals Blow to Mercers

April 10, 2018 at 9:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “The revelation last month that Cambridge Analytica improperly acquired the private Facebook data of millions of users has set off government inquiries in Washington and London, plunging Facebook into crisis. But it has also battered the nascent political network overseen by Rebekah Mercer, 44, and financed by her father, Robert Mercer, 71, a hard-line conservative billionaire.”

“Ms. Mercer’s standing in Mr. Trump’s circle had already declined following the departure last year of Stephen K. Bannon, her family’s former adviser and President Trump’s former chief strategist, according to Republicans with close ties to the president’s political operation. A pro-Trump advocacy group controlled by Ms. Mercer has gone silent following strategic disputes between her and other top donors. Plans to wage a civil war against the Republican establishment in the 2018 midterms have been derailed.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Rebekah Mercer, Robert Mercer

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