Meta drops $65 million into super PACs to boost tech-friendly state candidates

Meta has loaded $65 million into two super PACs to help elect state candidates it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry in California.

The two efforts — the American Technology Excellence Project and Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across (Meta) California — launched last fall, promising to sink tens of millions of dollars into countering what the company cast as a flood of overly burdensome AI bills from state governments.

The super PACs reflect Meta's deepening political ambitions for its home state, as the social media giant reinvents itself around AI, and other Silicon Valley heavyweights similarly eye a bigger say in California's electoral outcomes.