InfluenceWatch Friday
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The Left’s Censorship Industry: Brazen Advocacy for Censorship
Over the past almost two and a half centuries, faith in the common sense of Americans to make rational judgments—along with the protections of the First Amendment—preempted attempts to “protect”…
The Left’s Censorship Industry: Information Futures Lab
First Draft, launched in 2015 in partnership with the Google News Initiative and Bellingcat, with financial backing from Open Society Foundations. First Draft sought to combat allegations of election irregularities…
The Left’s Censorship Industry: Institutionalized Nonprofits
The Global Disinformation Index isn’t the only private group with tax dollars that targets “disinformation.” The Rand Corporation, one of the oldest and largest think tanks in the United States,…
The Left’s Censorship Industry: Disinformation Conference
In August 2022, multiple organizations on the left gathered in the webinar “Combating Disinformation and Misinformation in 21st Century Social Movement.” Those gathered for the webinar discussed the impact of…
Virginia Mosque: We Support Hamas
The Manassas Mosque, a mosque in the Washington, DC area, explicitly declared its support for the Hamas terrorist organization in a recent newsletter. The Virginia mosque’s announcement is significant because…
Michigan Renewable Energy Ads Tied to Arabella Advisors Network
Residents of Michigan have found themselves bombarded by ads from a mysterious group calling itself “Powered by Michigan.” Powered by Michigan certainly sounds like the name of a grassroots Michigan…
Lessons from Hollywood’s Labor Strife
In September, the Writers Guild of America-West (WGA) ended its strike against the Hollywood studios; in early November, the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA reached its deal with the studios. The Hollywood…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #293: Half a Billion for Liberal Journalism (w/Scott Walter)
As if the national press were not liberal enough or sufficiently committed to the national left-wing agenda, Big Philanthropy is throwing hundreds of millions of dollars to make local journalism…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.