Salon reported the company “has set up what appear to be local news sites but are actually propaganda efforts aimed at creating content to be shared on social media to boost moderate Democrats.”
Kelly McBride, chair of the Poynter Institute’s Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, said it is
a purely political site that pretends to be news is “super opaque to the consumer.
The former state AG added that ventures like Courier have the potential to “erode the public’s trust in media. When you click on Vox or some other news website that has a liberal bent to it, it still was created with the idea of putting out news for the sake of a business model. In this case, the very purpose for this site to exist is different.”
“As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies.”
In other words, they want to own all local media so there is no independent voice. “Local” newspapers and broadcast news are already mostly owned by big corporations. Soros wants to buy and control anything that is left.