Harris' campaign
I posted a picture One supposed actual news headline on Monday read, “Pennsylvania Poles Support Kamala Harris Over Putin and Ukraine Concerns.”
Harris Boosters Online
Suggested This was a “huge endorsement,” and some suggested it was evidence that the majority of Polish Americans in the Union supported the Vice President.
sharp ObserverBut there was something fishy about this endorsement, especially with Trump. Reportedly In 2020, he won majorities of the vote in eight of Pennsylvania's 10 districts with the largest populations of Polish Americans. sauce of the campaign's claims.
It turned out that this support did not reflect the political opinion of the Polish American community as a whole, but was instead the product of a small group of self-identified Democrats, including Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-N.Y.) and state Reps. Jessica Benham, Eddie Day Paszynski, and Melissa Cerrato.
“Although the articles are designed to resemble regular news, their primary purpose is not to increase readership for the website.”
Keystone Newsroom, the publication cited in the Harris campaign tweet, is actually
Courier Newsroom A left-wing propaganda network founded in 2017 by Democratic strategists Tara McGowan — President of the Democratic activist group Acronym Network. Previously, he worked as a staffer for President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, an associate producer for CBS News, and an activist for the super PAC that backed Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 campaign.
Acronym's political arm, Pacronym, is a Democratic super PAC that has poured tens of millions of dollars into recent elections.
Bloomberg, 2019
Revealed McGowan's intention behind the Courier Newsroom local propaganda machine is to “attract and persuade a small percentage of strategically positioned battleground state voters in states such as Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.”
Bloomberg noted:
While the articles she publishes are factual, there is nothing to let readers know that the Courier publication is not actually a traditional local newspaper, but a political tool to encourage readers to vote Democrat. And while the articles are made to resemble regular news, their primary purpose is not to increase website readership, but so that they can be disseminated individually through social media to increase their impact on persuadable voters.
This propaganda network closely resembles the Democratic Party's voter outreach efforts.
“Everybody who clicks on a story, likes it or shares it, we take that data and create lookalike audiences to help us find other people in your area with similar attributes, so our ability to find people is continually improving,” McGowan said.
“What I tell them is that balance doesn't exist anymore.”
McGowan said that because his propaganda network is for-profit, it was initially able to circumvent Google's strict restrictions on micro-targeted political ads and has so far avoided registering as a political organization with the Federal Election Commission.
Some social media platforms are well aware of what The Courier actually is: Facebook, for example, removed The Courier from its news feed ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Recognize it as propaganda.
While the Harris campaign appears to be trying to make the headline appear genuine, McGowan, who retweeted the campaign's headline image, is clearly under no illusions that Keystone Newsroom and its affiliates are anything more than simple propaganda.
“A lot of people I respect will see this media company as an affront to journalistic integrity because in their eyes, this media company is not balanced,” she told Bloomberg. “What I would say to them is that balance doesn't exist anymore.”
The propaganda network
Reportedly In the past, it has received funding from billionaire leftist George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and a variety of wealthy Democratic donors. Soros' Policy Reform Fund has pumped at least $5 million into the Courier from 2021 to 2022.
The Blaze News previously reported that the left-wing propaganda network received $1.2 million from three funds, New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Managed By Arabella Advisors, a Washington DC-based left-leaning private-sector fund group
The propaganda network appears to be trying to help Harris win over Polish-American voters by portraying President Trump as sympathetic to Russia and citing his desire to end the Ukraine war, which has so far been left to Poland.
At least 1 million people killed or injured.
Associated Press attention There are an estimated 784,000 Polish Americans in Michigan, 758,000 in Pennsylvania, and 481,000 in Wisconsin.
The apparent purpose of the Keystone Newsroom propaganda article (whose non-Democratic signatories were not named) and the Harris campaign's headline is to mislead this demographic into believing she has the support of Polish Americans, a group she appears to despise. Dominant Religion.
The Partisan letter argues that if Ukraine falls, Poland would be next, and that “Trump has kowtowed to dictators like Putin before and would do so again if re-elected.”
The letter makes no mention of the fact that Ukraine was invaded under the current and previous administrations, but not under the Trump administration, and further suggests that “Vice President Harris has a long and strong track record of defending democracy at home and standing up for our Polish brothers, sisters, parents and grandparents.”
While the left has suggested that Trump might put Poland at risk, the Biden-Harris administration is clearly considering moves that would draw Poland and all NATO countries into direct combat with Russia. Approval Ukraine's use of American and British long-range weapons in Russia.
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