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Elon Musk is a South African-born American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known for his role as a founder or co-founder of a number of high-profile technology firms. Musk is the chief executive officer, chairman, or a board member of a number of prominent firms across various industries, including
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The Edmund S. Muskie Foundation, registered in Portland, Maine, 1 is a public foundation endowed by a $3 million appropriation from the United States Congress to continue the legacy of Senator and
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The Musk Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded in 2002 by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk and his brother, Kimbal. 1 The
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Credibility Coalition is a self-described news analysis organization that claims to be developing objective metrics to determine the credibility of media outlets. It was founded in 2017 and has support from major media organizations like Twitter, the Associated Press, and Snopes. History Credibility Coalition was founded in 2017
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Meedan, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based technology nonprofit with a focus on combating alleged misinformation online and in the media. The group created the online tool Check which allows journalists and others to fact check information submitted to Meedan.
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As You Know is a data-centered affiliate of As You Sow, a left-of-center advocacy organization that engages in shareholder action to force companies to adopt various left-of-center positions and practices known by the term “corporate social responsibility.” As You Know uses As You Sow’s 30 years of left-of-center
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OpenAI is a for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) developer. It was originally founded as a nonprofit organization in 2015 by several technologists and entrepreneurs including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and Elon Musk. Formerly a nonprofit organization, in 2019 it reorganized with its main business operating as a “profit
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Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) is a research laboratory located within Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center for the Study of Information Technology that is focused on the concepts of “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
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Jews Against Soros (JAS) is a right-of-center Jewish organization founded by right-of-center attorney Will Scharf and journalist Josh Hammer that is opposed to political donor and philanthropist George Soros, who has contributed to numerous left-of-center political organizations and politicians.
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Lina Khan is a legal academic and bureaucrat serving as of 2023 as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Prior to assuming her role in June 2021, Khan was an associate law professor at Columbia University Law School. Khan is a long-time left-of-center antitrust activist.
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The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), legally known as Caidp, is a think tank and advocacy group dedicated to regulating the development of artificial intelligence (AI). CAIDP supports slowing AI development with an emphasis on legal guidelines to encourage AI alignment with democratic principles. The organization’s policy goals
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Akash Shendure is a Seattle, Washington-based environmentalist who created ClimateJets.org, a website that tracks the carbon dioxide emissions of private jets and examines the disparity in emissions between the wealthy and ordinary people. At the time of the creation of the website, Shendure was just 17 years old. His father
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Influence Map (sometimes written as InfluenceMap) is a New York-based advocacy group that monitors companies and organizations that attempt to influence global climate policy. It has been described as “an organisation that sees corporate lobbying as the primary obstacle to climate change legislation.”
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The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) is a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit organization that focuses on political issues such as abortion, immigration, and gun control. RAC’s work is commissioned by its two sister organizations, Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference for American Rabbis. It has
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We The 45 Million seeks government elimination of all student debt 1 and supports completely taxpayer-funded college education in the United States.
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Robert Malone is an American biochemist credited for performing an experiment on messenger RNA (mRNA) in 1987, in which he mixed strands of mRNA with droplets of fat. Human cells that came into contact with the mRNA strands absorbed them and began creating proteins. These experiments were important for the
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Hamilton 68 (now known as Hamilton 2.0) is an “online dashboard” that operates as a watchdog for Russian influence in the American media. It is a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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James “Jim” Baker is an attorney formerly employed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Twitter. He has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Baker became the Twitter deputy general counsel in June 2020 and held
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First Draft News was a collective of left-wing media organizations that pushed for news publications to implement guidelines for sourcing and presenting information to combat so-called “misinformation.” Founded in 2015, the collective included tech giant Google and the foreign-affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in 2022 and handed
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Semafor is a for-profit news website that debuted in October 2022. The company views itself as a “global” news service presenting news stories from around the world. The company’s target audience is English-speaking college graduates. Its goal is to simplify and “declutter” the news. The website is also notable for
