Facebook is Spending Millions to Plant Radical Activists in Local Newspapers: Renting out newsrooms to a left-wing agenda.

FrontPage Mag ^ | April 29, 2020 | Daniel Greenfield

[Perseverando]

When the Alliance Defending Freedom helped a local church sue Chattanooga for banning its drive-in prayer service, the article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press repeated the Southern Poverty Law Center's smear of the religious civil rights organization as a hate group. But the reporter who wrote the article was no ordinary employee. Wyatt Massey was one of the 225 members of Report for America's 'corps' who are planted in local newsrooms to promote the radical agendas of the left-wing group.

“Will Trump’s new public charge rule close door on immigrants’ hope of the American dream?” Manuel Obed asked at The Dallas News. Obed has been with the RFA ‘corps’ pushing out pro-illegal stories.

In 1976, William Garrison, along with two other thugs, broke into a home in Detroit, killed a man, and shot two other people. When Garrison recently died of coronavirus, the Detroit Free Press article treating him like a victim was written by Angie Jackson, another 'corps' member. Jackson’s beat, according to Report for America, is “formerly incarcerated citizens re-entering the community.”

While Report for America claims that it’s funding local journalism, what it’s actually doing is embedding social justice activists in local papers who are often targeted at pursuing a narrow political agenda.

Leah Willingham was placed at the Associated Press to focus on the "Mississippi state legislature" and its "actions affecting the poor", Kyeland Jackson was planted in Twin Cities Public Television to cover the "causes, effects and solutions to racial disparities in Minnesota", Shivani Patel was dispatched to the Ventura County Star to write about “equity in education in the county”, and Devna Bose was shoved into The Charlotte Observer to report on "poor and minority communities in prosperous Charlotte".

The agenda is often built into the very description of what Report for America’s

[Perseverando]

Sounds like Zukerberg is getting his "influencers" in place as the USA begins to get focused on the 2020 Presidential election.

[Terry L Smith]

Faceybookey has been liberal since the day they started cutting off Diamond and Silk, years ago!

[a fool in paradise]

I noticed this week that Fakebook has resumed to having a NEWS tab of articles they believe you should read.

When they did away with it a couple of years ago, it was entirely biased to the Left’s talking points and they didn’t take kindly to the flagging of FAKENEWS that was quickly exposed within 24 hours.

Must be election season again.

[caver]

I think we have a few in my local rag.

[gibsonguy]

Facebook is Spending Millions to Plant Radical Activists in Local Newspapers”

They will fit right in.

[Nateman]

The “Southern Poverty Law Center” is nothing more than a bogus organization the left hatched for smearing people the left does not like. When the left needs a convenient liar to quote , the Southern Poverty Law Center is the liar of choice.

[Oscar in Batangas]

At the same time FB sends me a cautionary message about making spam and possible sanctions, even though my friends and I are only exchanging a bunch of patriotic messages on Messenger???

[Dacula]

Zuck is also hitting local social media boards.

Nextdoor....ect.

[ptsal]

Support Free Republic with your $$$$

[eyeamok]

We used to call this type of activity an Illegal In Kind Political Contribution, and it had severe consequences.

[Bookshelf]

Funding for ultra left wing Report for America:
Thank you to the supporters who make RFA possible
$50,000+
Knight Foundation – $5M
Facebook Journalism Project – $2M
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – $750,000
Natasha and Dirk Ziff – $700,000
Joyce Foundation – $614,000
David and Lucile Packard Foundation – $400,000
Google News Initiative – $400,000
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation – $400,000
Craig Newmark Philanthropies – $350,000
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – $300,000
Heising-Simons Foundation -$300,000
Tow Foundation – $300,000
Ford Foundation – $200,000
Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation – $150,000
Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee – $150,000
LOR Foundation – $120,000
Galloway Family Foundation – $120,000
Leon Levy Foundation – $100,000
Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation – $100,000
Select Equity Group – $99,000
Henry L. Kimelman Foundation – $85,000
Annie E. Casey Foundation – $65,000
Newman’s Own Foundation – $65,000
Annenberg Foundation – $60,000
Samuel I Newhouse Foundation – $60,000
Santa Fe Community Foundation – $60,000
Jesse and Betsy Fink – $50,000
Lenfest Institute – $50,000
McClatchy

[V_TWIN]

Reason #712 I have never done fb. Don’t to ever intend to either.

[Dacula]

Good stuff. Thank you for sharing!

[reintarnation]

And here they are: names and newspapers

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Screw “Augustus Data”. Evil, little sh!t.

[Truthoverpower]

Look here’s the deal -they had their eight years with Obama and they got nothing done except Obamacare and Benghazi And now all these losers try to do is get in Trumps Way, America first conservative agenda and they’re looking like idiots We had the Russian nonsense for three years yes three years and then we finally had this mouse Muller and nothing And then I want to remind everybody we had the kavanaugh debacle last summer and he was finally confirmed on my birthday July 9 That was the most shameless inexcusable pack of lies and deformations that I’ve ever seen in my history on this planet it made the Clarence Thomas hearings look like a romper room picnic OK they might follow that ? U Fucking Kraine! ARE YOU KIDDING ME ???? Your what ???? IMPEACHNING OUR PRESIDDNT ON A Perfect phone call ? And then all of a sudden after they LOST and he was EXONERATED 🐸 The the virus comes while they were working On the next They were like “ man ! he jumped all over it. “. What do we do ? thinking now.... I know let’s OPPOSE HIM ! Let’s take the side of the VIRUS and DEATH ! Let’s call his ban On China racist! Let’s rewrite the story book in the middle of it and say he didn’t do enough early enough !! And now comes the delicious part Opening up America versus the clamp down Democrats And then the indictments of the conspirators from the original Russia crap! Just remember boys and girls , we have six more delicious months until the election! Best. Election. Ever.

[Does so]

“Public” radio and TV well represented.

[ronnie raygun]

Dump twitter, dump facebook, dump everyone who is against us. We made them who they are w e can take them down

[squarebarb]

Are they getting paid twice over? By RFA as well as the news organization they are infesting?

[DeplorableGirl]

The Southern Poverty Law Center ..

Is none of the above.