How is this news? This has been known for a long while. I, myself of all people, have written an article about how dangerous lobbying from these tech companies is [1] Corporations need to get their funding out of politics because it perverts the democratic process. The same applies to foreign influence. It bothers me greatly how much right-wing parties all-over the world are taking a pro-Russian stance.

[1]https://medium.com/@jsemrau/uber-and-lift-set-a-very-dangero...