Minnesota can change corporate law to forbid campaign spending

By: Ken Peterson

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: April 2, 2026

Words: 811

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Meta recently announced it will spend $65 million this election year backing legislative candidates opposed to state regulation of artificial intelligence ventures. The company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is targeting issues like state limits on costs and locations of data centers, deepfakes, algorithmic discrimination in hiring and consumer privacy.

Meta’s big spending on behalf of sympathetic candidates is allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision, Citizens United v. FEC. It says …

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