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Utopia Fiber finishes Bountiful build despite dark money campaign
- hn_acker 1y agoAT&T, Comcast, and CenturyLink financially contribute to Utah Taxpayers Association, the dark money group in question [1]. AT&T's 2024 financial disclosure records include contributions to UTA [2]. Comcast and CenturyLink/Lumen are or have been among the UTA's conference sponsors [3][4]. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/04/big-telecom-covertly-funded-smear-campaign-to-derail-affordable-fiber-broadband-deployments-in-utah/ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/04/big-telecom-covertly-fun... [2] https://sustainability.att.com/ViewFile?fileGuid=e33e226c-27dd-4ad1-82d3-fe7eab4cb236 https://sustainability.att.com/ViewFile?fileGuid=e33e226c-27... [3] https://www.bountifulutah.gov/file/bed1ff61-eee4-46ab-b62a-0d1b09b93cc7 https://www.bountifulutah.gov/file/bed1ff61-eee4-46ab-b62a-0... [4] https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/07/09/gigi-sohn-bountiful-city-voted/ https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/07/09/gigi-so...