According to the organization’s website, left-wing mega-donor Craig Newmark has teamed up with several tech giants to launch a project to provide guidelines readers can use to decide which news stories to trust. Raised.
The Trust Project lists eight “trust indicators” intended to inform readers which news stories to trust. website. Funders of the project include tech giants Microsoft, Google and Facebook, as well as Newmark, who has made significant donations to journalism schools and left-wing media groups such as Mother Jones and ProPublica. there is (Related: LinkedIn again exposed for censoring profiles on behalf of Chinese government)
According to the magazine, a seventh trust metric, titled “Diverse Voices,” tells readers that “often people are criticized because of their race, class, generation, gender, sexual orientation, ideology, or where they live.” , look for voices that are not often heard in society.” website. The magazine asks readers whether there is “evidence that journalists care about diversity” and whether communities are “included only in typical ways or absent altogether.” I encourage you to ask.
The project describes itself as “a Microsoft-funded collaboration that Radio, Television and Digital News Association (RTDNA), trust project, Accelerating Social Change Leadership Program at the University of Washingtonand University of California Information Center,” the company said on its website.
One of the project’s funders is democracy fund, was created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyard. Omidiyar’s group paid out $1.2 billion between 2004 and 2022, most of which has been donated to left-wing groups since 2014, according to reports. Capital Research Center.
The Omidials reportedly donated 4,500 in 2020 to the Civic Action Fund, a project of the Six Thirty Foundation that funded attack ads against Trump and some Republican senators during the 2020 election. donated millions of dollars. Politico. The Sixteen Thirty Fund is a left-wing dark-finance group that donated $410 million to Democratic initiatives in 2020.
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— Rosie (@rose_k01) June 13, 2023
Microsoft has been criticized for alleged censorship activities. Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan claimed in 2021 that tech giants censor conservative voices on various platforms, including LinkedIn.
House Judiciary Republican spokesman Russell Dye told the Daily Caller News Foundation in June 2021 that “Microsoft has used its power to advance enlightened policies and support the Democrats.” .
The Trust Project, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Omidyar Network, Meta, Google and Microsoft did not immediately respond to DCNF’s requests for comment.
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