Texas billionaire John Arnold has joined the board of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Arnold has donated millions of dollars to organizations dedicated to censoring “disinformation,” which typically takes the form of suppressing Americans’ free speech rights.
meta announced Arnold joined the company’s board of directors in mid-February. Arnold founded and co-chairs Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing criminal justice and other issues. The move is concerning as Arnold is clearly intent on censoring what he believes to be “misinformation” as the US approaches the presidential election.
Mark Zuckerberg has already made changes to Facebook’s algorithm to cut down on news in favor of lighter content, and by adding censorship freaks to his board, his strategy could favor Democrats in the 2024 election. may be predicted to have an impact on
as washington examiner be familiar withArnold Ventures has donated $13.7 million to five organizations dedicated to combating allegations of disinformation, which often targets free speech as part of large-scale censorship mechanisms.
Former Breitbart News reporter Alam Bokhari explained:
The censorship apparatus that made a mockery of the First Amendment was vast in scope and driven by powerful forces far beyond the Silicon Valley tech companies themselves, although they were the primary culprits.
An organization in which media companies, billionaire philanthropists and foundations, academics, organizations, and the deep state join forces to suppress Americans’ free speech rights and the free speech rights of people around the world. created a huge international network. A type of so-called “disinformation” expert.
Arnold Ventures awarded $9.7 million to the American Journalism Project (AJP). AJP invests in local news and nonprofit organizations. “In the absence of reliable news sources, we are seeing targeted disinformation campaigns, including efforts to spread misinformation through social networks and websites masquerading as news brands,” AJP said on its website. ” he said.
The organization is affiliated with the Fund for Racial Equality in Journalism, which has donated millions of dollars to left-leaning news organizations.
Arnold Ventures too donated New Venture Fund of over $13.5 million. The New Venture Fund created the Media Democracy Fund and reportedly “contributed” to the left’s push for net neutrality regulations during the Obama administration.
Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center (CRC), a conservative research think tank, said of Arnold Ventures: “It’s especially sad to see them supporting the left-wing scam of cancel culture disguised under the label of fighting misinformation and disinformation.”
Arnold Ventures has donated $1.5 million to the Social Science Research Council, a nonprofit organization that conducts social science research. grants for the council’s social media and democracy initiatives;
of examiner explained:
According to the Social Sciences Research Council, it runs a project called Mediawell that “curates research and news on digital disinformation and misinformation.” the Website. For example, Mediawell article The website features an article titled “Fighting an Indestructible Monster: A Story of Journalism’s Legitimacy in the Age of Trump.”
The media well is also Axios the article Website The title is “Racist ‘white replacement theory’ becomes mainstream in Republican Party” and be new yorker An article on the right titled “How Conservative Activists Invented Conflict Over Critical Race Theory” education Activist Christopher Rufo.
The council runs the Mercury Project, which awards $25 million in grants to organizations researching allegations and disinformation related to vaccines and public health.
Mr. Arnold’s charity has donated more than $1.1 million to Maplight, a left-leaning nonprofit that tracks election finance and politics. MapLight has released articles on how to combat “election misinformation” and how to “fight disinformation and protect elections.”
However, after that, the president of Map Light said the following. examiner The group is no longer focused on disinformation.
Arnold Ventures donated $500,000 to the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, which funds media operations. The group then funded his two left-wing news outlets, Spotlight PA and Capital B News. Spotlight PA regularly publishes stories about misinformation and disinformation.
Arnold Ventures also donated $500,000 to Global Witness, a nonprofit organization that published a study on “election disinformation” in the United States. The group also called on TikTok, Meta and YouTube to tighten censorship in the run-up to the midterm elections. Another article criticized Mr Mehta for failing to censor “far-right hate speech” in Norway, which is said to be seeing the rise of “far-right parties”.
These are just a few of the left-wing-funded organizations seeking to suppress free speech in the name of combating misinformation and alleged disinformation.
Organizations not yet connected to Arnold and acting as allies in the censorship machine include the UK-based think tank Global Disinformation Index (GDI), which targets conservative media websites. It maintains a “dynamic exclusion list” used for blacklisting.
Dr. Daniel Rogers, co-founder and executive director of GDI, wrote an editorial in the following article: time The magazine calls for sweeping technology regulation to prevent Donald Trump and “people like him” from getting elected.
Sean Moran is a policy reporter at Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
