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Billionaire Steve Ballmer Spent $100 Million In A New Twist On Political Giving
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4:57Now PlayingPlenty of billionaires put money into politics, and they all pick a team when they do so. George Soros, Tom Steyer and Reid Hoffman all don blue caps before cutting checks to liberal super PACs, while Charles Koch, the Walton siblings and Elon Musk, the world's richest man, are all lined up behind Republicans.
The exception who proves the rule, though, may be Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who thinks he can make a mark on politics by combating misinformation—in a strictly nonpartisan way—to help voters sift fact from fiction.
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