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For those unaware of the connection, Robert Mercer was also a key investor behind Cambridge Analytica, the data firm which played a large role in the hyper targeted Facebook ads during the 2016 election.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-merc...

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Robert Mercer has nothing to go with Parler. Why are you bringing him up?

Did you read the article? Robert Mercer funded Parler.

No he didn't. This is what the article says, "On Saturday, CEO and co-founder John Matze said one of the privately-owned company's early investors is Rebekah Mercer"
What's more, I've also read the Wall Street Journal article on the subject which made it even clearer.
"Ms. Mercer, in a post on Parler after a version of this article was published, said that her father had no involvement or ownership of the company."

Here's the source post
https://parler.com/post/6e474ef190344fdbab8557b3ebf85ade

She later posted: "My father, Robert Mercer, has neither involvement with, nor ownership of, Parler."
https://parler.com/post/90d032f4e22243fd82f7dd9a5b27208d

She runs the Mercer Family Foundation through which her father donated over $100million to rightwing propaganda causes. Point being that they work closely together and have shared ideologies.

Ohh wow! Did you actually read the article?

It's daughter did, not him, she said so in a post on Parler.

If I recall correctly, he was also one of the very few rich people to back Trump in 2016, when everyone had written Trump off. Which also caused some drama at Rentech.

He had many billionaire donors and its well documented that GOP voters are wealthier on average, this is a list of just the well-known billionaires that backed his 2016 run: https://fortune.com/2016/08/03/trump-billionaire-backers-lis...

> it's well documented that GOP voters are wealthier on average
Is it? I could not find a proper reference documenting both the average and median wealth of voters of both parties.

This is based on exit polls and there are better studies out there. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016...

Thanks! "exit polls" were the missing keywords missing in my searches, there are quite a few out there.

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