Just Another Democratic Smoke Screen to Propagandize Americans and Undermine Reality Itself.
While logging into Firefox today I noticed an interesting sounding article distributed by Pocket from an entity called the “News Literacy Project” titled “Discern Information From Manipulation”. It gave a blurb about how important the right to vote is and then linked to several articles from the Los Angeles Times, The Brookings Institution and this News Literacy Project. Having never heard of this News Literacy Project, I clicked in to learn more…
News Literacy Project presents itself as a platform to help people contribute to the efforts to “stop misinformation”. They even have established a “RumorGuard” coalition of people to “stop falsehoods in their tracks”. Now at this point I am wary, because I have already done deep dives on many other organizations like this that ended up just being fronts for the Democratic Party. So, I keep digging…
In my experience in order to find out who is behind an organization you follow the money. I always look for two things: the bios of the people running the org and the donation platform they use. Typically, without much digging you find the organization is using ActBlue as their donation platform, which is an exclusively Democratic donation platform (and basically a barely legal money laundering operation). This time though, I found something interestingly different. This organization wants you to use a service called FastAction which after a little more digging than normal (I actually had to dig into the code of the website) I found is actually EveryAction, which is a direct competitor of ActBlue. Not in a Republican vs Democrat kind of way, like in a still very much into Democratic type stuff just not ActBlue kind of way.
Now FastAction is affiliated (or “powered by” as they say on their website”) by an organization called NGPVan as well as EveryAction. Going to the NGPVan website, there is no research required to see what their purpose is…(please see our updated article on NGPVan here)
Now that we have established, despite the News Literacy Project crossing their heart and hoping to die several times about definitely not being a partisan organization, we see that they most definitely are exclusively an entity of or at least exclusively supporting the Democratic Party.
So where is the beef? Who cares if this organization that fact checks all the things to bend everything to a Democractic propaganda slant? Well for one thing, it’s definitely illegal. There are reasons people who support political parties financially need to do so through an established PAC that is tracked by the FEC. The IRS specifically forbids actions and contributions that support or benefit a candidate or political party directly OR indirectly. Just saying you are non-partisan does not make it so.
The other very alarming thing is this organization established a “Checkology” education platform that is used to teach kids and adults alike how to read the news based on their very partisan criteria of interpretation (propaganda). This is a highly established and elaborate system of pushing false narratives and hedging would be informed people from the truth. According to AMLE.org, “digital news literacy lessons over the last eight years to 25,000 students in middle schools and high schools in New York City, Chicago, Houston, and the Washington, D.C., area.”
To give them the benefit of the doubt, I was going to check out another page on The News Literacy Projects website, “Our Gift Acceptance Policy”, and lo and behold, a big ole 404 not found, which actually seems to be strangely par for course with these orgs. And a check on archive.org brought up a giant eggshell, no archives of the page.
Organizations like these are the true danger to our Republic and the sanctity of our election process. Elections in a free society must be done by a properly informed citizenry and not a public that is being actively lied to and propagandized by one political party via unchecked, alleged non-profit organizations.