Posted on 06/13/2023 4:07:18 PM PDT by george76
Left-wing megadonor Craig Newmark worked with several technology giants to launch a project that gives guidelines readers can use to determine what news stories should be trusted, according to its website.
The Trust Project lists eight “trust indicators” that are designed to inform readers about which news stories to trust, according to the website. The project’s funders include tech giants Microsoft, Google and Facebook, as well as Newmark, who is a prolific donor to journalism schools and left-wing media groups such as Mother Jones and ProPublica.
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The seventh trust indicator, titled “Diverse Voices,” instructs readers to “look for voices less commonly heard in society, often because of race, class, generation, gender, sexual orientation, ideology or the region they live in,” according to the website. It recommends readers ask whether there is “evidence that the journalist pays attention to diversity” and if communities are “included only in stereotypical ways, or completely missing.”
The project describes itself as “a collaboration funded by Microsoft that includes the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), the Trust Project, University of Washington’s Accelerating Social Transformation leadership program, and UW Center for an Informed Public,”
One of the funders of the project was Democracy Fund, which was created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar’s groups paid out $1.2 billion between 2004 and 2022, with most of it going to left-wing organizations since 2014, according to the Capital Research Center.
Omidyar and his wife also gave $45 million in 2020 to the Civic Action Fund, a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund that financed attack ads against Trump and some Republican senators during the 2020 election, according to Politico. The Sixteen Thirty Fund is a left-leaning dark-money group that gave $410 million to Democratic efforts in 2020.
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Microsoft has been criticized for alleged censorship efforts. Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan claimed in 2021 that the tech giant censors conservative voices on various platforms like LinkedIn.
Russel Dye, a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Republicans, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in June 2021 that “Microsoft has used its power to promote a woke agenda and to help Democrats.”
The Trust Project, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Omidyar Network, Meta, Google and Microsoft did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
How did Newmark accumulate his wealth?
Never Trust Bastards
Craig’s List.
Right! Several of those organizations mentioned were front and center in the Covid propaganda and censoring anyone who disagreed. They can’t be trusted but knowing that whatever they say is propaganda for the Left.
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Goebbels would be proud...
He would also realize, after assessing the current marxist tyranny, that he had been a piker...An amateur...
Not since the 1800s, when the japs created & implemented the original concept of Thought Police, has any tyrannical nation had the level of control now exhibited in the United States of America...
It looks more & more like Apophis is the best hope for destroying the dark tyranny in this country...
The election processes are diluted, dishonest, and devious...
The Soros-Bezos-Obama axis is in full control...
Just say no to these Fascists pretending to be balanced news/information sites/
This will be very helpful. Whatever news they approve of we will know is precisely what NOT to trust.
Never liked Craig’s List.
Are,there any good Billionaires who support the Constitution?
There are many Republican billionaires but most of them are libertarian globalists such as Charles Koch.
I dunno, I think it might be one of Weird Al's best songs :-)
There was a time when rich people with more money than working grey matter stuck to buying bad art.
More names of America’s tech giant enemies. Listing them too.
The trust project should not be trusted, ha ha ha ha ha
Our Flag Day is celebrated on June 14/Today!:
It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. Wikipedia
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14 Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Fact Check: Nearly 100 Percent of Political Contributions From Fact Checkers Go to Democrats
Jewish nerd but rich
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