Silicon Valley workers learn to worry about their politics

For years, as the social-media and startup world exploded, the tech industry was known for the outspokenness of its employees — largely liberal-skewing young technologists on the West Coast, who pushed their companies hard to build policies that then became models for a new kind of American workplace. This is changing faster than anyone expected. At the donor level, the rightward political shift is well-documented. At the employee level, things look different. Political contribution figures from 2024 show that even as Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook flanked President Donald Trump at his inauguration, workers at Meta , Alphabet and Apple overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates.