A new group has been formed to fight against what it calls disinformation, using a model one activist said would “erode the public’s trust in media.” This from westernjournal.com.
A new public benefit corporation backed by far-left billionaires including George Soros and Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, will do battle with the forces of any opinions it does not like under the banner of Good Information Inc., Axios reported Tuesday.
The outfit “aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information” and will invest in local news outlets.
The group will be led by Tara McGowan, who has worked as a democrat strategist and headed a progressive nonprofit called ACRONYM.
Good Information Inc. will acquire Courier Newsroom from ACRONYM as part of its effort to wade into local news.
Fox News has described the company as a “far-left website” that “has managed to drive liberal messaging in key states online and on social media, with piles of cash and no financial disclosure.”
Calling Courier a “left-wing dark money operation,” Fox reported that its alleged news stories “often appear to be little more than Democratic Party talking points.”
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, the outside counsel for Americans for Public Trust, said the group was not a healthy addition to the media universe.
“I think it’s an unprecedented political news organization. While there are complaints of media bias, fake news, no media outlet is doing what Courier Newsroom is,” Laxalt said. “They were stood up by a large, left-of-center political world and they appear to be directly engaged in political persuasion.”
The former state AG added that ventures like Courier have the potential to “erode the public’s trust in media.”
A report in Salon said the company “has set up what appear to be local news sites but are actually propaganda efforts aimed at creating content to be shared on social media to boost moderate Democrats.”
“When you click on Vox or some other news website that has a liberal bent to it, it still was created with the idea of putting out news for the sake of a business model. In this case, the very purpose for this site to exist is different,” McBride said last year.
This deserves no other explanation than ‘Fake News in hyperdrive.’ Soros et al must believe that their lies being believed by forty percent of America is not sufficient.
I doubt the First Amendment was intended to protect open false reporting involving ulterior motives.
What say you Def-Con News readers?
