“We hope these efforts make it a little more likely that Secretary Clinton is able to pursue the agenda she’s outlined," Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded Facebook, writes. | POLITICO Screen grab Facebook co-founder donates $20 million to defeat Trump

A co-founder of Facebook is shelling out $20 million to help Hillary Clinton and the Democrats in this year’s elections.

Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and went on to found Asana, explained in a post on Medium that his decision to use “large amounts of money” was “not easy,” but that “this cycle is different.”


“The polarization in America today has yielded a race that is about much more than policies and ideas,” Moskovitz writes in a piece titled “Compelled to Act.” “It has become a referendum on who we want to be — as individuals, as a nation and as a society."

The $20 million, he noted, would be divided between a number of organizations, including the Hillary Victory Fund, the DSCC, and the DCCC. The League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund and For Our Future PAC will receive the largest contributions — $5 million each.

Moskovitz goes on to say that the Republicans and Democrats offer two starkly different visions for the country. He said the Republicans and their nominee, Donald Trump, are running on “a zero-sum vision, stressing a false contest between their constituency and the rest of the world.” The Democrats, in contrast, are “running on a vision of optimism, pragmatism, inclusiveness and mutual benefit,” he writes.

“So, for the first time, we are endorsing a candidate and donating,” he said. “We hope these efforts make it a little more likely that Secretary Clinton is able to pursue the agenda she’s outlined, and serve as a signal to the Republican Party that by running this kind of campaign—one built on fear and hostility—ad supporting this kind of candidate, they compel people to act in response. We are not the only ones being activated so strongly during this election.”