BuzzFeed - Evan Vucci / AP WASHINGTON ? Wired magazine named Campaign Zero, a group affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, as one of the top 20 tech insiders defining the 2016 presidential elections on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Wired said its addition of Campaign Zero onto its "Clout List" was because the magazine's editors "think that they are as influential over this campaign as the Facebook's, Google's, etc." The accolade is just the latest indicator of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Campaign Zero in particular, increasing its efforts to make inroads with major Silicon Valley companies. On Wednesday, DeRay Mckesson, a Campaign Zero leader, was slated to speak in San Francisco at Slack's headquarters in San Francisco. He has met with Reed Hastings of Netflix and talked via phone with the head of Flipagram. He is something of a regular at the New York offices of Medium, has strong relationships with executives at Slack and Twitter, and has a fledgling relationship with t
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