How Facebook-Funded American Edge Project Spends its Millions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a nonprofit watchdog group that runs the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), released a report revealing new research into the expansive–and expensive–influence campaign being waged by American Edge Project (AEP), the Facebook supported anti-regulatory attack dog. TTP’s exclusive analysis of AEP’s 2020 Form 990 and ad buys provides a look inside the group’s messaging campaign, which aims to use small businesses and anti-China fearmongering to convince lawmakers to oppose antitrust enforcement. Beyond ads, the group has used its Facebook...