Silicon Valley Spent Millions on California's Primaries with Mixed Results ^53.5%

KQED - By Lesley McClurg - 6/16/2026, 11:01 PM

Fundamental Attribution Error 26.9% - Framing Effect 19.2% - Pessimism Bias 16.3%

Silicon Valley spent big in California’s primaries. Venture capitalists, artificial intelligence executives and tech billionaires poured tens of millions of dollars into races up and down the ballot, trying to influence who will regulate them. For the most part, their preferred candidates fell short, a sign of growing anti-tech sentiment... more