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WhoFundsWho: Instantly see who funds the organizations you are reading about
- ssss11 3y agoWell this seems like a useful tool. I had considered doing something similar at one point - to show significant share holders of public companies. Good job! I’ll try it out
- antran22 3y agoIs there any rationale behind the decision of publishing this exclusively as an extension? Why is it not possible to just provide a public webform. I want to try it out but it doesn't support Firefox yet.
- hliyan 3y agoYes, I'm not about to give an extension "read all information on all web pages you visit" permissions.
- mdp2021 3y agoAbsolutely. No need to climb the gutter, in spite of some better scenery, when there are direct stairs. The engine must use some repository: it should be directly accessible.
- markdown 3y agoBased on what I've been reading, it's probably so they can sell the extension to a malware or adware company, or receive proceeds of crimes from them in exchange for providing data of extension users.
- kmlx 3y agowill this tool alleviate or exacerbate the current conspiracy theories about WEF or the Gates Foundation? looking over the results my bet is 100% exacerbate. it’s a tool made to fan the flames, not to extinguish them, not to make us understand things better.
- mdp2021 3y agoYes, but on the other hand, it can be informative (even though only partially so, hence capable of eliciting or causing premature judgements).
- jdthedisciple 3y agoThis applies to pretty much all media. Heck, your appearance can cause premature judgements. Does that mean you should now walk around fully masked?
- mdp2021 3y agoIn significant amount, proportionate to the context. > Does that mean It means that education must return to be taken very seriously.
- H8crilA 3y agoProbably exacerbate, but so what? Soros was the boogeyman for decades, and it didn't matter because the people that believed such conspiracies usually are poor, know almost nothing about the world and generally have no effect on anything. It's a very useful project.
- kmlx 3y ago> and it didn't matter oh, i think it mattered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros_conspiracy_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros_conspiracy_theori...
- H8crilA 3y agoOkay but how did it matter? Other than some news stations having content to broadcast and sell ads against? For comparison, here are conspiracy/shit theories that did have an impact on the world in the past, or continues to have an impact: - Saddam has WMD - Ukraine is not a country - the end days of the world are here and we Muslims need to band up for the final fight (ISIS)
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- orwin 3y agoI mean, I hope your children never suffer from the whooping cough I had at 5. It's all I can remember of my early childhood: the pain, that canceled vacations and the fact I couldn't go to school and my mother couldn't go to work for a long time (6 month apparently), the feeling I would die until a doctor diagnosed the illness correctly. Positive point from that however: my brother and sister got all useful vaccines, not just the mandatory ones, as my mother go outvoted on health decisions after that year. I mean, it's your children, do whatever you want about it. Hope they won't suffer, but if they do, that's on you.
- jdthedisciple 3y agoJust because there are established, trustworthy vaccines, which hopefully all of us provide to our children, doesn't mean we can't be skeptical about completely new stuff shoved down our veins right? Is someone an anti-vaxxer who gets 99% of vaccines but is skeptical of 1?
- monooso 3y agoA little context about the author, as it may have a bearing on this particular project: https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels
- jdthedisciple 3y agoAnd? Not even sure what you want us to focus on, but: Does that have any bearing on facts revealed by this extension? Also truly ask yourself: Would you post this exact comment had he been (seemingly) of a different political alignment?
- tallanvor 3y agoYes. He posts conspiracy theories and says he uses Wikispooks as a source of his data. He simply is not a trustworthy actor.
- jdthedisciple 3y agoIf he relied on CNN and similar outlets would you be just as concerned for the truth?
- kemotep 3y agoThere is a difference between being skeptical and being conspiratorial in thinking. We can be critical of mainstream media in its accuracy but not have to immediately trust the next person to come along. Especially when they utilize sources with even more extreme biases and inaccurate information. CNN being a poor source doesn’t make this browser extension a better one. In fact CNN being bad has zero bearing on the quality and accuracy of this source or Wikipedia or Bellingcat or anything else that doesn’t use the same methodology and primary sources as CNN.
- calgarymicro 3y agoPer his website > We did the research for you and compiled a database Given that I am relying on this person and his editorial decisions, this sort of thing is very relevant to me. It might affect what data he chooses to include or exclude, and what he is willing to treat as reliable or unreliable. Needless to say, his usage of Wikispooks as a source does not inspire confidence.
- differentView 3y ago*whom
- abbabon 3y agoThank you.
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- musiciangames 3y agoI love the idea of 'making politicians wear their sponsors’ logos on their suits, like NASCAR drivers do'
- defrost 3y agoFor more in this space, there's Josh On's 2001 https://www.theyrule.net/ https://www.theyrule.net/ which may or may not have been kept up to date (it's an ongoing task to track board members and sub company inter connects). Commercially in the Minerals domain https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/metals-mining https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met... (subscription) is kept up to date by parsing the stock exchange release documents across Toronto TSX, London Metals, South Africa, Sydney, etc. Are there any good free | low cost sites tracking mineral, energy, media, think tank, etc. interconnects and ownerships? It's no small task to stay up to date and an area where some effort is made to obfuscate some (but not all) direct and indirect control.
- jdthedisciple 3y agoThe irony of ironies: The same people who seem to fear "premature judgement" caused by this extension are the ones who skim the author's Twitter page for a few keywords, returning immediately with a judgement. Don't we need more such geniuses.
- ndom91 3y agoBureau van Dijk or Dun and Bradstreet should release a version of this. All of their business entity beneficial owner data would provide a much more straightforward version of this. Granted, that wouldn't include political spending or anything like that.