Overall Left-Wing Ideology Risk Score: 6.3/10 [Industry leader in LGBTQ+ activism with perfect 100 score on HRC CEI 2025 and historic opposition to religious freedom laws, massive $100M+ unretracted Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (including criminal justice reform) launched post-George Floyd, aggressive DACA/Dreamers defense — offset by zero direct Soros ties, no company PAC donations to candidates, minimal gun-control activism, and no anti-military positions]
- DEI / Woke Ideology: 9/10 → Evidence: Earned perfect 100 score on Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 2025 (has maintained perfect score for over 20 consecutive years). In February 2025, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected anti-DEI proposal from conservative groups (Apple board urged rejection and won decisively). Active Inclusion & Diversity website with ongoing commitments. DEI language reduced in recent 10-K filings but programs and HRC participation fully intact — no retreat.
- Anti-Gun: 3/10 → Evidence: No donations to Everytown, Giffords, Brady, or any gun-control groups found in last 10+ years. No public CEO statements pushing gun control, no refusal to do business with firearms industry, no merchant-code tracking. Standard corporate neutrality (removed rifle emoji in 2016, restricts some gun apps in App Store, but nothing beyond minimal virtue-signaling).
- Anti-Police: 8/10 → Evidence: June 2020 launched $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative explicitly in response to George Floyd’s death and nationwide protests (later doubled to over $200 million by 2023). One of the three pillars is “criminal justice rooted in reform” with funding to organizations transforming/reimagining the justice system. Zero retraction or distancing in 5+ years.
- Anti-Military: 1/10 → Evidence: No criticism of defense spending, no pulling of military contracts, no donations to anti-war groups found. Apple supplies tech to U.S. military, offers veteran hiring programs, and has never taken anti-military stance. Essentially neutral/pro-military in practice.
- Open Borders: 8/10 → Evidence: Employs hundreds of DACA recipients (443 reported in 2019, up from 250 in 2017). Tim Cook repeatedly called DACA termination “unacceptable” and “not who we are as a country,” filed amicus brief in Supreme Court defending the program, and publicly urged Congress for permanent solution. Heavy user of H-1B visas and consistent advocacy for immigration reform favoring higher skilled-worker inflows.
- Anti-Christian Liberal Positions: 10/10 → Evidence: Tim Cook (openly gay CEO) wrote 2015 Washington Post op-ed calling religious freedom laws “dangerous” and led corporate opposition to Indiana RFRA and North Carolina HB2 (threatened to curtail investment). Perfect HRC CEI score maintained for decades with mandatory trans-inclusive healthcare and policies. Massive annual Pride support, App Store Pride collections, and industry-leading LGBTQ+ normalization while aggressively opposing any state-level religious protections that conflict with gender ideology.
- Soros / Open Society Ties: 0/10 → Evidence: No grants from Open Society Foundations or any Soros family foundation to Apple Inc. or its corporate foundation in the last 15 years (searched OSF grant database and public records). No board members or C-suite with OSF employment history, no partnerships, no joint initiatives found. Zero traceable connections.
- Democrat-Partisan Donations: 7/10 → Company PAC: Apple explicitly states it has no PAC and makes zero political contributions to candidates or parties (confirmed on official policy page; OpenSecrets aggregates individual employee donations from Apple, which skew ~70–80% Democrat in recent cycles, but corporate treasury gives $0). → Leadership personal donations: Tim Cook — heavily Democrat (major donations to Hillary Clinton, Biden-aligned PACs, DNC committees; some older bipartisan giving to GOP House members in 2016 but almost exclusively Democrat last decade per FEC/OpenSecrets). Rest of C-suite/board (Katherine Adams, Luca Maestri, etc.) lean strongly Democrat or do not donate publicly. Total leadership Democrat %: ~90%.
Notable conservative positions or genuine retreats (if any):
• Zero company political contributions to any candidates or parties (official policy).
• Shareholders crushed anti-DEI proposal in 2025 — no retreat whatsoever (opposite of Disney/others).
• No involvement in gun-control activism or Soros network.
Biggest red flags (top 3 worst offenses):
- Decade+ industry leadership aggressively opposing religious freedom laws while pushing LGBTQ+ ideology (Tim Cook’s 2015 op-ed + perfect HRC defense in 2025).
- Unretracted $100M–$200M Racial Equity and Justice Initiative with criminal-justice-reform pillar launched post-George Floyd.
- Extreme pro-DACA activism + 20+ years of perfect HRC scores with trans-inclusive mandates.
Final verdict: Heavily Compromised