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Billionaires back new media firm to combat disinformation
Axios ^ | Oct 26 | Sara Fischer, author of Media Trends

Posted on 10/26/2021 1:42:47 PM PDT by RandFan

A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation.

Why it matters: Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies.

The group will be led by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM.

ACRONYM invested in for-profit companies that built media and technology solutions for progressive causes. It ran one of the largest digital campaigns to defeat President Trump in the 2020 election, totaling $100 million.

One of the companies it invested in, called Shadow, made headlines last year for contributing to the delayed reporting of the Iowa caucus results.

Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, backed ACRONYM.

Details: Good Information is launching with a multi-million seed investment led by Hoffman and joined by investors Ken and Jen Duda, Incite Ventures, and George Soros.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: kentucky; randpaulsucks
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1 posted on 10/26/2021 1:42:47 PM PDT by RandFan
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Information that exposes the leftie narrative.


2 posted on 10/26/2021 1:44:17 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation.

? I think the put the dis in front of information by accident.

3 posted on 10/26/2021 1:44:47 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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They are going to an awful lot of trouble to silence Tucker.


4 posted on 10/26/2021 1:45:13 PM PDT by allendale
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Hmmmm! Pretty sure they meant disseminate mis/dis-information while quashing fact based truth. No?


5 posted on 10/26/2021 1:45:21 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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They can’t silence us. Must really annoy them!


6 posted on 10/26/2021 1:45:33 PM PDT by RandFan
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Translation: Fighting against Truth uncovering our blatant lies.


7 posted on 10/26/2021 1:47:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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Who gets to decide what is correct information and what is incorrect information? I need to reread 1984. I thought it was fiction, now I find out it was a “how-to” manual.


8 posted on 10/26/2021 1:47:16 PM PDT by Paperpusher
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1. “People perish from the lack of knowledge,” Solomon

2. “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Jesus

3. “I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to the Father except through me.” Jesus

4. “Ye shall not surely die!” The evil one in the garden of Eden


9 posted on 10/26/2021 1:51:11 PM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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FAKE NEWS on Steroids, coming up...


10 posted on 10/26/2021 1:51:41 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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Anything they disagree with is disinformation. What a cyno/solipsistic world to live in... If they think God is that piece of fluff circling round their navel, then that is what God is. Theirs is a morality tale told by an idiot, sitting on the devil’s pitchfork saying God exists in the heel of my shoe.


11 posted on 10/26/2021 1:52:53 PM PDT by BEJ
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Disinformation = the (actual) truth.


12 posted on 10/26/2021 1:53:10 PM PDT by mikelets456
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The only way to silence would be an EMP


13 posted on 10/26/2021 1:53:18 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issueOur enemies plan to The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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The real problem with these people is they just cannot tolerate anyone - anyone - holding a different view from their dogma. They must be suppressed, and ultimately put down. It is very easy to see how these people easily justify building a neo-Auschwitz, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, or Majdanek.
14 posted on 10/26/2021 1:54:52 PM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is treason in an empire of lies.)
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Why are they duplicating what already exists?


15 posted on 10/26/2021 1:59:14 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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I have a couple of suggestions for their company catch phrase:

“Good Information Inc., where we lie even if the truth sounds better!”

“Good Information Inc., where lying isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”


16 posted on 10/26/2021 2:02:02 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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Well...Soros has had a measure of success with his meddling in local AG races across the country. He very likely would view latching onto inforamtion outlets to be yet another ‘local’ issue.
Nothing good will come from this for ANY Freedom-loving American.


17 posted on 10/26/2021 2:03:43 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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“A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros,”

Enough said. Anything the son of Satan backs is cancerous.


18 posted on 10/26/2021 2:15:04 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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“As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies.”

I’m pretty sure they already own my local news. I watch it to get, well, local news (actually, how many black people killed other black people the previous day), but of course they have to branch out to national news. The “vaccine” is the greatest thing in the world and there was an insurrection in January according to them.


19 posted on 10/26/2021 2:19:31 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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Only doubleplus goodthinkers need apply to the new Minitrue. Inner Circle only.


20 posted on 10/26/2021 2:54:38 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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