Soros Leaps Headfirst Into the Fact-Checking Grift

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It seems to be like George Soros and the gang are trying to find novel methods to take care of opinions that don’t jibe with wokeist orthodoxy. The financier and his allies are reportedly launching a brand new endeavor ostensibly designed to focus on “disinformation,” which is one among the left’s favourite phrases as of late. Should conservatives be involved about this initiative, or will this challenge be nothing extra than simply one other far-left propaganda mill?

A New Hope for Progressives?

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Axios reported that “[a] new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others are launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation.”

The function of this company is to “fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information,” and it’ll “invest in local news companies.”

Tara McGowan, a former Democratic Party strategist who ran a non-profit referred to as ACRONYM, has been tapped to guide the new group, which is hilariously referred to as “Good Information Inc.”

ACRONYM invests in firms that develop media and expertise options for far-left causes. The group “ran one of the largest digital campaigns to defeat President Trump in the 2020 election, totaling $100 million,” in accordance with Axios.

The firm has been endowed with a multi-million-dollar seed funding spearheaded by Reid Hoffman, who based social media web site LinkedIn. Ken and Jen Duda, Incite Ventures, and George Soros are additionally a part of the funding. “We are disclosing our investors, because we believe — especially right now in this environment of mistrust — that transparency is really important,” McGowan defined.

Despite the reality the group was launched by far-left progressives, McGowan suggests it might put money into entities on the reverse facet of the political spectrum. It is just not identified whether or not she additionally claimed to have prime oceanfront property in Idaho to promote at a killer worth, however given the laughability of this assertion, it might come as no shock.

To make herself sound much more ridiculous, she referred to anti-Trump web site The Bulwark, which was based and run by bitter, whiny neocons after the former president rendered them irrelevant. Since then, the web site’s management has tried desperately to seek out somebody, anybody who would possibly like them – however even Democrats haven’t rewarded the turncoats. “The information crisis we’re in is so much bigger than politics,” McGowan stated, with completely no sense of irony.

The firm’s advisory committee contains a few of the greatest names in politics, Big Tech, and activist media. From Axios:

“The company’s advisory committee consists of nearly two dozen political, media and tech experts, including former White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, Civic Signal Founder Eli Pariser, Check My Ads co-founder Nandini Jammi, former Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times Editor Mark Jacob, Accountable Tech co-founder Nicole Gill and others.”

Axios additionally famous that this transfer is “the latest example of investments by billionaires targeting disinformation.”

Craig Newmark, founding father of Craigslist, Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO, and Laurene Powell Jobs have additionally dumped oodles of inexperienced into the effort to supposedly fight on-line disinformation unfold by the conservative heathens who’ve dared to specific views that aren’t Democrat-approved. McGowan stated her group’s goal over the subsequent 12 months is to “raise more awareness about immediate solutions to counter disinformation before it spreads.”

What’s Actually Going On Here?

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see what this initiative really is. Like most far-left progressive ventures, this has nothing to do with combatting disinformation. Instead, it is going to be nothing greater than far-leftist propagandizing disguised as efforts to make sure the American public is aware of the reality. These people search to affix the ranks of PolitiFact, Snopes, and the fact-checking departments of varied information providers like the Associated Press, which has taken an curiosity in guaranteeing its viewers is aware of that satire is satire.

This appears to be the progressive crowd’s favored technique at the second, pushing misleading narratives whereas claiming they’re solely attempting to maintain Americans from being influenced by disinformation. These organizations have been working hand-in-hand to stifle as a lot conservative content material as potential. It doesn’t appear possible that Good Information Inc. will provide something extra compelling than what the others already serve up. But there’s at all times sufficient room for an additional fake “fact-checker,” proper?

~ Read extra from Jeff Charles.