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USAID + Soros + Wikipedia + Whitney Williams [Hillary Clinton aid]
X ^ | 2/4/2025 | Ashley Rindsberg / Pirate Wires

Posted on 02/04/2025 10:03:50 AM PST by AndyJackson

[How Wikipedia was transformed from an on line encyclopedia to a USAID influence op]

In 2017, Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) launched its "Movement Strategy" to transform Wikipedia into a global movement focused on social justice.

This shifted the mission from building a collaborative encyclopedia to becoming a "global influencer shaping world policy." Much of this was directly inspired by Soros' Open Society political philosophy. To underscore the point, Soros donated $2 million in a high profile donation to jumpstart the effort.

The firm that WMF hired to shape and implement this transformation is called Williamsworks, which is founded and led by a longtime Hillary Clinton staffer named Whitney Williams.

Williams – who was recommended to Wikipedia by a senior Soros-linked WMF executive – previously made headlines when she launched the East Congo Initiative (ECI) with Ben Affleck.

At the ECI – a USAID partner project – Williams' deputy was Maura O'Neill, a senior USAID staffer who previously served as USAID's first "Chief Innovation Officer," and Senior Counsel to the USAID Administrator.

O'Neill's signature initiative was USAID Forward, which sought to elevate US foreign aid to the level of national security.

My original reporting on this epic inter-organizational clusterfuck



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benaffleck; congo; deepstateblob; mauraoneill; soros; usaid; whitneywilliams; wikimedia; wikimediafoundation; wikipedia; williamsworks; wmf
This is how Wikipedia went south. Thank goodness I never contributed a dime to these guys.
1 posted on 02/04/2025 10:03:50 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

I wonder if this is how Matt Drudge got compromised.


2 posted on 02/04/2025 10:07:08 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: AndyJackson

Hopefully DOGE will find something on Soros and his evil empire ,LOL


3 posted on 02/04/2025 10:12:27 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: AndyJackson; Liz

Well, Wikipedia was heading liberal (jogging full tilt radical) since it’s first two years. But since 2006 2008 period, it has begun sprinting. Pulled by a drag racers.


4 posted on 02/04/2025 10:13:41 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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Must read

Soros-cash-cow-—USAID

https://slguardian.org/soros-cash-cow-how-usaid-became-the-funding-arm-of-global-unrest/


5 posted on 02/04/2025 10:13:47 AM PST by Liz
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To: AndyJackson

This explains a LOT.


6 posted on 02/04/2025 10:24:37 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: AndyJackson

They are at 501 C3, They are clearly political and that is forbidden in their tax status. Time for the IRS to take a hard look at Wikipedia.


7 posted on 02/04/2025 10:26:01 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: DesertRhino
IRS

LOL! Another corrupt org. They won't do nuffin'.

8 posted on 02/04/2025 10:27:52 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

.....In 2017, Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) launched its “Movement Strategy” to transform Wikipedia into a global movement focused on social justice.......

“Social justice” is poison!

Under Trump, it is on its way out. Wikipedia will need to get with the program, or else ir will be sold, and turned into something good!


9 posted on 02/04/2025 11:25:56 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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10 posted on 02/04/2025 12:09:08 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: Honorary Serb

Yup—Wikipedia was a classic example of the left’s long march through the institutions.

They used our tax dollars to do it.

That was fraud on a mind-boggling scale.


11 posted on 02/04/2025 12:12:44 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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The “East Congo Initiative” with actor Ben Affleck – a USAID partner project –
where Hillary aide, Whitney Williams, deputized Maura O’Neill, a senior USAID staffer.

O’Neill previously served as USAID’s first “Chief Innovation
Officer,” and Senior Counsel to the USAID Administrator.

O’Neill’s signature initiative was “USAID Forward,”
to elevate US foreign aid to the level of national security.


12 posted on 02/04/2025 12:21:12 PM PST by Liz
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To: AndyJackson; piasa

Williams was Hillary’s travel director during the Clinton administration. I wonder what she knew about Travelgate (or as Wikipedia calls it, the “White House travel office controversy”), and a few other things. I think she came in a little late for the actual Travelgate incidents, but the investigation continued until 2000.

Incidentally, whenever the Democrats complain about Trump firing employees, remember Travelgate.


13 posted on 02/04/2025 12:56:24 PM PST by Fedora
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To: piasa

Former Montana Senator Max Baucus played a key role in getting China into the WTO during the Clinton administration and was Obama’s ambassador to China right after Hillary got replaced at Secretary of State by John Kerry. His wife Melodee Hanes worked with the All China Women’s Federation in a cooperative effort with the Department of State and Department of Justice to implement China’s first domestic violence law before supporting Whitney Williams for governor in 2020. Baucus runs a consulting firm called the Baucus Group that advises Chinese brands like Alibaba and his Max Baucus Institute think tank runs a Chinese student exchange program.


14 posted on 02/04/2025 1:24:16 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Liz

btt


15 posted on 02/04/2025 1:24:50 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

http://newyork.china-consulate.gov.cn/eng/zt/14you/201104/t20110414_5428510.htm

China, U.S. launch women exchange program
2011-04-14 09:11

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Xinhua) — Visiting Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday announced the launch of the China-U.S. Women’s Leadership Exchange and Dialogue (Women-LEAD), as part of the efforts to boost people-to-people exchange between the two countries.

Through Women-LEAD, the two countries will seek to increase dialogue between high-level Chinese and American women leaders and expand exchanges between organizations, think tanks and universities on gender equality,officials said.

The initiative was launched as China and the United States concluded their second annual high-level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE). Both Liu and Clinton hailed the importance of people-to-people engagement when they co-chaired the meeting at the State Department. . .


16 posted on 02/04/2025 1:50:39 PM PST by Fedora
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To: AndyJackson

the new one will...


17 posted on 02/04/2025 4:40:28 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: AndyJackson

US Aid created to replace the CIA?
https://x.com/saltygoat17/status/1886764407700472231?t=M3QSPxInPeRU8BOjsiHnHg

Check Guatemala for sure.


18 posted on 02/06/2025 2:48:26 AM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT))
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