Important. @craignewmark financed Donovan’s work at Harvard & has pledged to continue funding her in the future. He is literally the largest funder of disinformation in the US. He has spent millions of dollars making sure journalism departments are activist breeding grounds.
https://twitter.com/semaforben/status/1621225736479674369
@craignewmark In 2021 the Harvard Shorenstein Centre announced that Craig Newmark would fund Joan Donovan's Technology and Social Change project. shorensteincenter.org/newmark-suppor…
@craignewmark Newmark spent close to $200 million in the run up to the 2020 presidential election granting large sums to university journalism departments, in a bid to defeat Donald Trump. He claims to be motivate to defeat 'misinformation'. forbes.com/sites/angelauy…
As I covered here, in his flagship project - now being wound down by @Harvard - Joan Donovan put together a team of the most partisan and unqualified disinformation peddlers she could find on Twitter. Newmark has pledged to continue to support her. open.substack.com/pub/dreoinleni…
Newmark is particularly supportive of Donovan's partisan, poorly researched and agenda-driven work claiming "She is defending the country against people who want to do us harm." (He RTd the tweet below apparently confirming and endorsing the quote attributed to him.) 
Craig Newmark granted $10 million to Columbia University's Journalism School in 2019 to go towards a centre for journalism 'Ethics and Security'. journalism.columbia.edu/craig-newmark-…
Newmark is a member of the Columbia Journalism Review Board of Overseers. The CJR wrote an embarrassingly debunked hit piece about me after I exposed Antifa journalists on Twitter, some of whom - Luke O'Brien - were later hired by Joan Donovan at Harvard. dailycaller.com/2019/06/19/col…
The CJR brought in activist Jared Holt to write the hit piece. Later it emerged he is close friends with several Antifa journalist I exposed & had previously spoken at Donovan's Harvard centre. This the Newmark way - activism over ethics. @DailyCaller dailycaller.com/2019/06/15/col…
@DailyCaller In 2018 Newmark spent $20 million dollars establishing the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at @CUNY. journalism.cuny.edu/about-us/brief…
In all of these prestigious journalism departments we are witnessing what should be called 'the activist creep' or 'the Newmark creep'. His investments are unprecedented and aimed at producing the next generation of hyper-partisan activist journalists.
.@craignewmark is quietly, through massive cash injections, shaping the next generation of activist journalists that will continue to tear at the fabric of American life by spreading disinformation & rubbishing journalistic ethics - while all the time claiming to champion them.
Where would we be without the obligatory rubbing shoulders with Geroge Soros' Open Society. Newmark is a board member for the left wing Centre for Public Integrity which is funded by OS. The centre has been called 'activist journalism' - a recurring theme. influencewatch.org/non-profit/cen…
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