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Voters Against 'Zuckerbucks' Influencing Elections

Thursday, December 23, 2021, Rasmussen Poling

An overwhelming majority of American voters believe Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s multimillion-dollar effort to influence the 2020 presidential election was a bad thing for democracy, and most still think cheating influenced the election outcome.

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 70% of Likely U.S. voters believe it was a bad thing for American democracy for Zuckerberg to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Only eight percent (8%) think Zuckerberg’s election spending was good for democracy, while 17% say it didn’t make much difference. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters think it’s likely that cheating affected the outcome of last year’s presidential election, including 40% who believe it is Very Likely the election was affected by cheating. Thirty-six percent (36%) don’t think it’s like cheating affected the election, including 21% who say it’s Not At All Likely that the outcome was affected by cheating. In October, 56% thought cheating affected the election.

Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney of New York this week called attention to a report showing that a “group funded in part by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg dumped money in eight swing states in 2020, virtually all to counties that picked President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump.” Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters say they have closely followed new stories about Zuckerberg's efforts to influence U.S. elections, including 29% who have followed the news Very Closely. Thirty-six percent (36%) haven’t closely followed news about the Facebook founder’s election spending.

The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on December 21-22, 2021 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.