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404media? Wikileaks? Project Brazen? Motherboard? Bellingcat? Quanta magazine? Rest of world? Intercept? Techdirt? Even things like BBC, CBC, NHK, NPR - you ca

404media? Wikileaks? Project Brazen? Motherboard? Bellingcat? Quanta magazine? Rest of world? Intercept? Techdirt? Even things like BBC, CBC, NHK, NPR - you can whine about their politics but they're journalists at a news organization, trying to do their job as reporters instead of forwarding a particular agenda. If you think sensationalist bad faith pushers who are trying to persuade an ideology are the same as journalists trying to abide by ethics, accuracy and codes of conduct who value responsibility and integrity then I can't help you.

walterbell 2y ago
Bellingcat has stated that their funding sources include Open Society and US National Endowment for Democracy. Rest of World is funded by Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Eric Schmidt, former President of Alphabet/Google. Intercept was originally funded by Pierre Omidyar.
- kristopolous 2y ago
  Open society did things like fund xerox machines in the eastern block to make zines and literature proliferate more (samizdat). Their work on pro-democracy groups, independent media, and civil society organizations in Eastern Bloc country's journalism is often credited by scholars to be part of the collapse of the Soviet Union. There's a lot of antisemitic trolls who think it's edgy to call them secretly pro-communist somehow. Claiming eastern European Jewish billionaires are secretly polluting the commons with communist propaganda is definitionally Nazi bullshit. It's really hard to be more of a bulls-eye on the dartboard. Again it goes back to the media literacy question. If you can't see a difference in purpose and objective between funding independent media organizations and white supremacist antisemites, I can't really help you.
  - walterbell 2y ago
    > If No such claim was made.
- 9283409232 2y ago
  > Bellingcat has stated that their funding sources include Open Society and US National Endowment for Democracy. Is this suppose to mean something? US National Endowment for Democracy is not partisan and has both Democrats and Republican members and the Open Society promotes government transparency and accountability.
  - walterbell 2y ago
    For readers born 16 days ago, like this account, Wikipedia offers profiles on each org.
    - kristopolous 2y ago
      Alright, let's go > Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014. Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies. Sounds like journalism to me. Compare with > The Reason Foundation is an American libertarian think tank that was founded in 1978. The foundation publishes the magazine Reason. Based in Los Angeles, California, it is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. According to its website, the foundation is committed to advancing "the values of individual freedom and choice, limited government, and market-friendly policies. Sounds like "not journalism"
  - walterbell 2y ago
    Another source of context, https://www.influencewatch.org/about-us/ https://www.influencewatch.org/about-us/ > Armed with 30-years of research and data on advocacy organizations, foundations, and donors, CRC utilizes a universe of well-trained contributors to help build the individual and organizational profiles that populate the website.. InfluenceWatch brings unprecedented transparency to the funding, motives, and interconnections of the entities profiled. https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-endowment-for-democracy/ https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-endowment... https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-foundations/ https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-found...

walterbell 2y ago

Bellingcat has stated that their funding sources include Open Society and US National Endowment for Democracy. Rest of World is funded by Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Eric Schmidt, former President of Alphabet/Google. Intercept was originally funded by Pierre Omidyar.

kristopolous 2y ago
Open society did things like fund xerox machines in the eastern block to make zines and literature proliferate more (samizdat). Their work on pro-democracy groups, independent media, and civil society organizations in Eastern Bloc country's journalism is often credited by scholars to be part of the collapse of the Soviet Union. There's a lot of antisemitic trolls who think it's edgy to call them secretly pro-communist somehow. Claiming eastern European Jewish billionaires are secretly polluting the commons with communist propaganda is definitionally Nazi bullshit. It's really hard to be more of a bulls-eye on the dartboard. Again it goes back to the media literacy question. If you can't see a difference in purpose and objective between funding independent media organizations and white supremacist antisemites, I can't really help you.
- walterbell 2y ago
  > If No such claim was made.
9283409232 2y ago
> Bellingcat has stated that their funding sources include Open Society and US National Endowment for Democracy. Is this suppose to mean something? US National Endowment for Democracy is not partisan and has both Democrats and Republican members and the Open Society promotes government transparency and accountability.
- walterbell 2y ago
  For readers born 16 days ago, like this account, Wikipedia offers profiles on each org.
  - kristopolous 2y ago
    Alright, let's go > Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014. Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies. Sounds like journalism to me. Compare with > The Reason Foundation is an American libertarian think tank that was founded in 1978. The foundation publishes the magazine Reason. Based in Los Angeles, California, it is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. According to its website, the foundation is committed to advancing "the values of individual freedom and choice, limited government, and market-friendly policies. Sounds like "not journalism"
- walterbell 2y ago
  Another source of context, https://www.influencewatch.org/about-us/ https://www.influencewatch.org/about-us/ > Armed with 30-years of research and data on advocacy organizations, foundations, and donors, CRC utilizes a universe of well-trained contributors to help build the individual and organizational profiles that populate the website.. InfluenceWatch brings unprecedented transparency to the funding, motives, and interconnections of the entities profiled. https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-endowment-for-democracy/ https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-endowment... https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-foundations/ https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-found...