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Silicon Valley Spent Millions on California's Primaries with Mixed Results 61%
By Lesley McClurg0%
6/16/2026, 4:01:59 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Pessimism Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Fundamental Attribution Error as the most egregious example at 26.9% saturation with 28 hits. Analysis detected 127 faulty-reasoning hits from 104 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.7% and a BS Rank of 61% (8,596 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 60.70% of the article peer group.
Silicon Valley spent big in California’s primaries.
Venture capitalists, artificial intelligence executives and tech billionaires poured tens of millions of dollars into races up and down the ballot, trying to influence who will regulate them.
For the most part, their preferred candidates fell short, a sign of growing anti-tech sentiment among voters.
However, tech-backed super PACs managed to secure some notable victories.
KQED’s Lesley McClurg is joined by Politico’s Silicon Valley reporter Christine Mui to assess the impact of Big Tech’s big spending.
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