Last week, Axios announced the launch of a new organization, funded by George Soros and Reid Hoffman, reporting that “Good Information Inc” would “fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information.”
But even a first look at Good Information Inc.’s wireframe web page and at it’s founder quickly quashes any illusion that the effort is an impartial one, or even one that prioritizes objective “facts.”
The homepage of the website lists various types of unapproved information: “bad information,” “Q information,” “dis-Information,” “fake information,” and “disproven information.” The phrases are presented alongside photos of Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, a polling place, vaccine mandate protesters, and the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol.
The website then presents a list of statistics that it positions as being related:
- 96 million Americans believe the election was stolen
- 89 million Americans believe voter fraud is a major problem
- 264 million Americans can’t name their state legislators
- 109 million Americans can’t name their governor
- 185 million American’s don’t trust traditional media
- The organization suggests that these factors demonstrate an “urgent need for regulation of social media platforms” and “Increased investment” in new “models” of media.
“Good Information Inc. will invest in and partner with media companies and platforms that center the communities they serve, their interests, and their media consumption habits in their reporting and their content distribution strategies,” the group explains.
The group is founded and led by DEMOCRAT strategist Tara McGowan. McGowan is an advocate for “progressive media” and publicly purports that the media is biased in favor of the political right.
Previously, McGowan founded ACRONYM, a group that supported left-leaning political causes by funding media and tech solutions, such as by running a $100 million digital campaign against President Trump in 2020.
ACRONYM faced a FEC complaint last year that alleged it wasn’t transparent enough about Courier’s backing. McGowan originally told Axios that the complaint had been dropped. The group that filed the complaint, Americans for Public Trust, told Axios that the complaint was still pending. McGowan subsequently told Axios that her lawyers are “confident” it will be dropped.
One of the companies it invested in, called Shadow, made headlines last year for contributing to the delayed reporting of the Iowa caucus results.
Following the recent victory of Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, McGowan has been blaming the DEMOCRAT loss on media outlets she doesn’t like, claiming that “right-wing media” and a “structural imbalance in the media” that supposedly favors the political right, are to blame.
Working alongside McGowan on the Good Information Inc. advisory committee are Obama's Senior Advisor Dan Pfieffer, and Obama's White House Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman.
https://humanevents.com/2021/11/05/new-soros-backed-media-initiative-is-led-by-former-dem-strategist-who-targets-right-wing-news-aims-to-regulate-social-media/
