Washington, Apr. 30 (ANI): Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is under fire from the left in his quest to reform the country's immigration system.
Progressives and environmental activists are outraged over recent television ads from the subsidiaries of Zuckerberg's FWD.us umbrella group that tout lawmakers' pro-Keystone XL pipeline and oil drilling positions.
Daniel Weiss, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, told POLITICO that it was great that Zuckerberg is promoting immigration reform, but it was too bad that he did so by echoing big oil's agenda.
According to the report, CREDO Action, the activist arm of cell phone company CREDO Mobile, hoped to hit Zuckerberg where it hurts - on Facebook.
The group is planning a Facebook advertising campaign taking aim at the FWD.us ads, and has also launched a petition calling on Zuckerberg to end the ads.
The ads are part of a push by FWD.us and its subsidiaries to build support for immigration reform by supporting lawmakers who are involved in contentious talks on the issue, and making political space for vulnerable lawmakers to throw their support behind the efforts, the report said.
The subsidiaries - the Republican-led Americans for a Conservative Direction and the Democratic-led Council for American Job Growth - released the ads last week.
One ad includes mentions of other issues that have become red meat for conservatives, including a clip of Graham bashing President Barack Obama's health care law.
FWD.us defended the groups' campaigns as a means of reaching key population segments to help win support for candidates in the immigration debate, the report added. (ANI)
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