A Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, and his wife, Cari Tuna, said they will pledge $20 million in an effort to help Hillary Clinton defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The donation, which will be distributed among organizations and super PACs supporting Clinton’s presidential campaign, including the Hillary Victory Fund and the League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund, was announced in a post titled “Compelled to Act” on the blogging platform Medium.
“If Donald Trump wins, the country will fall backward, and become more isolated from the global community,” Moskovitz wrote.
‘This decision was not easy, particularly because we have reservations about anyone using large amounts of money to influence elections. That said, we believe in trying to do as much good as we can, which in this case means using the tools available to us (as they are also available to the opposition).’
Dustin Moskovitz
Moskovitz and his wife are estimated to be worth more than $10 billion, and the pledge would make them the third largest donors in the 2016 election cycle, according to CNN.
They are also the youngest couple to donate through the Giving Pledge campaign, an initiative launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett that challenges billionaires to give the bulk of their wealth to charity.
