{"id":1028357,"date":"2026-08-12T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028357"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:39:22","slug":"google-co-founder-sergey-brin-donates-20-million-more-to-organisation-advocating-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-donates-20-million-more-to-organisation-advocating-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Google co-founder Sergey Brin donates $20 million more to organisation advocating against &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Brin has now donated more than $100 million to the campaign against California&#8217;s proposed billionaire wealth tax. According to a newly filed California campaign finance report (first shared by Bloomberg), the Google co-founder has recently contributed an additional $20 million to political committee Building a Better California. His total donations now stand at $102 million. This makes him the largest financial backer of the campaign opposing Proposition 40. Proposition 40 is a ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of California billionaires.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nThe filing shows Brin made the $20 million contribution on July 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Brin has now donated more than $100 million to the campaign against California&#8217;s proposed billionaire wealth tax. According to a newly filed California campaign finance report (first shared by Bloomberg), the Google co-founder has recently contributed an additional $20 million to political committee Building a Better California. His total donations now stand at $102 million. This makes him the largest financial backer of the campaign opposing Proposition 40. Proposition 40 is a ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of California billionaires. \u200b The filing shows Brin made the $20 million contribution on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028358,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028357\/revisions\/1028358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}