These 10 megadonors have spent a total of $1 billion on the midterm elections
THE SO WHAT
A handful of donors driving $1B in spend concentrates influence and data flows into a tiny set of political and adtech operations. For platforms and infra providers, this raises both revenue opportunity and regulatory risk—treat political workloads as a distinct compliance and resilience category.
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