Possibly related, from a different Musk falsehood: > The basis for Musk’s claim is an ignorant fool on Twitter pointing out that Defending Democracy received d

Possibly related, from a different Musk falsehood: > The basis for Musk’s claim is an ignorant fool on Twitter pointing out that Defending Democracy received donations via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, asserting that this is USAID money. But… it’s not. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is a Donor Advised Fund — think of it as a charitable banking service where donors deposit money into their own accounts and then direct it to various nonprofits. Just as having an account at Wells Fargo doesn’t mean you’re financially connected to every other Wells Fargo customer, using RPA for charitable giving doesn’t create connections between different donors’ grants. [...] > This pattern of manufactured outrage points clearly to what’s coming next. I fully expect that we’ll get a functional equivalent of “The Twitter Files.” Just as when Musk took over Twitter, and insisted that the old management was up to all sorts of no good, from being infused with “woke” ideology to government infiltration. > His playbook then was simple: hand-pick credulous journalists, give them selective access to internal documents, and let confirmation bias do the rest. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbook-comes-for-the-us-government/ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...