A Texas billionaire whose donations to organizations across the United States have stayed relatively obscure has given millions of dollars to groups tied to efforts fighting the spread of purported 'disinformation' and 'misinformation,' records show.
A Texas billionaire whose donations to organizations across the United States have stayed relatively obscure has given millions of dollars to groups tied to efforts fighting the spread of purported"disinformation" and"misinformation," records show.
Arnold Ventures has given tens of millions in"journalism" grants, according to its grants database. Included in this sum is the $9.7 million it awarded between 2019 and 2021 to the American Journalism Project, which invests in local news nonprofit groups and has received $4.2 million from the Democracy Fund, a left-wing foundation created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar that has contributed millions of dollars to fight alleged misinformation and disinformation.
The Media Democracy Fund has supported the government having more regulatory control over the internet and is a project of the New Venture Fund, a group managed by Arabella Advisors, the largest left-wing dark money network in the United States. Between 2016 and 2020, Arnold Ventures has donated over $13.5 million to the New Venture Fund, according to the Arnold Ventures grants database.
The Social Science Research Council operates a project called Mediawell that"curates research and news on digital disinformation and misinformation," according to its website. Mediawell, for instance, promotes an article on its website that is titled"Fighting an indestructible monster: Journalism’s legitimacy narratives during the Trump Era."
MapLight has taken $300,000 from left-wing billionaire George Soros, records show. In 2014, the organization was listed along with other"progressive" groups on a 57-page document published by the Democracy Alliance, a secretive network and club of wealthy left-wing donors that Soros co-founded to influence the Democratic agenda.
Jon Schweppe, policy director for the American Principles Project, a conservative think tank, said fighting purported disinformation and misinformation has"been a goal" of the Left for a long time. Spotlight PA regularly publishes articles on purported misinformation and disinformation. In April, the website released a"guide" for voters to spot"election misinformation" that instructed people to use the left-leaning fact-checking website PolitiFact"to assess the accuracy of claims" and"report" any"disinformation" on the internet to social media platforms and search engines.
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