Thread by @_whitneywebb

A little known organization known as "The Trust Project", funded by tech billionaires in collusion with top MSM outlets, has weaponized tech company algorithms to destroy their competition: independent media.

My latest at MPN: mintpressnews.com/the-trust-proj…

The Trust Project has created "Trust Indicators" that it offers as bits of code embedded in articles of "qualified" publishers that are used by Google and Facebook (which fund the Trust Project) to promote Trust Project media partners and participants over other outlets

It was co-founded by Sally Lehrman who blames "competition" from non-MSM outlets for the current lack of public trust in MSM and Richard Gingras, Google VP for News. It was explicitly founded with the idea of using algos to homogenize the media landscape in MSM's favor

Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft's Bing ARE CURRENTLY using these "indicators". Media partners that are currently benefitting include the WaPo, the Economist, the Globe and Mail (all three owned by some of the world's wealthiest families), the NYT, Mic, BBC

The Trust Project is funded by Silicon Valley billionaires including: Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Mike Markkula (former Apple CEO), and Pierre Omidyar (eBay, PayPal). It is also funded by Google and Facebook

Of note, Pierre Omidyar is directly responsible for the involvement of the Antidefamation League, a pro-Israel lobby group, in directing Silicon Valley censorship by giving the ADL seed funding to est its SV outpost. ADL now works with Google, FB, etc to determine who to censor

Update: Turns out Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and who provided seed funding for the Trust Project, is a major donor to the ADL and is on the ADL's tech advisory board. Will update my article with this shortly.
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