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>>19893278, >>19893966, >>19894021, >>19894028 EIP/Stanford thread A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented

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> https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/announcing-election-integrity-partnership

We thankthe Knight Foundationand Craig Newmark Philanthropies for their support of this effort.

> https://knightfoundation.org/news-and-information-disorder-in-the-2020-presidential-election/

News and Information Disorder in the 2020 Presidential Election

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Throughout the 2020 election campaign, there were increasing concerns about the spread of false information on social media, as well as discussions regarding the role of platforms in resolving information disorder (i.e., misinformation, dis-information and malinformation). Now that the election is over, we must evaluate the effectiveness of diverse strategies that platforms or media organizations have used, along with the associated ethical and legal ramifications, to address misinformation and disinformation during the election. The Information Society Project at Yale Law School invited leading scholars on misinformation from different disciplines— including communication, computer science, law, psychology and political science—to write about their reflections on important questions that were raised during the presidential campaign and the 2020 Election, particularly related to information disorder created and aggravated by algorithms on social media. You can find the essays below. The essays appear in the order in which they were presented at the Yale ISP conference this fall. Click here to watch the speaker presentations.

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>We thankthe Knight Foundation

We are social investors who support a more effective democracy by funding free expression and journalism, arts and culture in community, research in areas of media and democracy, and in the success of American cities and towns where the Knight brothers once published newspapers. (Read our Statement of Strategy.)

Informed and Engaged Communities

The Knight brothers believed that a well-informed community could best determine its own true interests and was essential to a well-functioning, representative democracy. The brothers pursued those beliefs, building and running one of America’s largest and most successful 20th century newspaper companies. (Learn more about the philosophy of the Knight Newspapers.)

The Knights formed Knight Foundation to promote excellence in journalism and the success of the communities in which they worked, in the words of Jim Knight. The company was sold, and the foundation, ever evolving, carries on this work.

Our Beliefs

We believe in freedom of expression and in the values expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

We believe an informed citizenry is essential for representative democracy to function effectively.

We believe in engaged, equitable and inclusive communities.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are core to our work as a social investor. We believe in the power of diverse perspectives to foster positive change and build stronger, more equitable, and inclusive communities.

Much like the Knight brothers’ success in tailoring their newspapers to the cities they served, Knight Foundation takes a dynamic approach to its grantmaking, leveraging opportunities authentic to the diverse and pluralistic communities and fields where we work. We do not adhere to a prescriptive approach to our work. Instead, we embrace flexibility and adaptability, ready to embrace emerging opportunities. We actively seek out skilled, committed, and tenacious leaders who can achieve meaningful outcomes.

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We champion the First Amendment and support journalism excellence in the digital age. Learn more

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We invest in cities where the Knight brothers once published newspapers, helping them attract and nurture talent, promote economic opportunity, and foster civic engagement. Learn more

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We believe great art connects people to place and each other; we support art that engages, educates and delights residents in ways that are authentic to each community. Learn more

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We seek to understand the broader context of our work and the impact of programs we support. We disseminate information and insight to relevant fields and communities in ways that are frank and clear, and advance learning, social development and future intelligent grant-making

The foundation has offices in eight of the 26 Knight communities.

Knight Communities

Knight Foundation’s work is national in scope, but it has a special focus on 26 communities where John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Knight has offices in eight of those U.S. cities, and Knight staff work through community foundations in 18 others.

Cities with Knight Foundation offices

Knight program directors are your first point of contact in eight large and mid-sized cities where we have offices.

Akron, Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Macon, Georgia, Miami, Philadelphia, San Jose, California, St. Paul, Minnesota

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Community Foundations Program

Knight works in 18 small to mid-sized communities in partnership with local community foundations. Learn more about this program.

Aberdeen, South Dakota

Biloxi, Mississippi

Boulder, Colorado

Bradenton, Florida

Columbia, South Carolina

Columbus, Georgia

Duluth, Minnesota

Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Gary, Indiana

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Lexington, Kentucky

Long Beach, California

Milledgeville, Georgia

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Palm Beach County, Florida

State College, Pennsylvania

Tallahassee, Florida

Wichita, Kansas

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Board of Trustees

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Chair of the Board and Trustee

Christopher M. Austen

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Matthew Stepka

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critizing Big Tech because they "let" potus win in 2016 so the Knight foundation got all butthurt

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Revenue: $183,144,507

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The Knight Foundation is aleft-leaning private foundation that sets a primary emphasis on funding media-related projects. The foundation, which was seeded by the estate of economically conservative newspaper publisher John S. “Jack” Knight, began by endowing chairs in journalism atuniversities. In the past decade, the foundation has funded non-profit news sites, backed paying the salaries of individual reporters at newspapers, and supported many research projects about how newspapers can remain viable enterprises. In addition, the Knight Foundation gives grants to newspapers such as the Salt Lake City Tribune that have become nonprofits.

The Knight Foundation has three major grant areas. In eight cities where the Knight Ridder newspaper chain had newspapers, most notably in Detroit, Miami, and Philadelphia, the foundation has a branch office and funds community-based grants. In eighteen smaller cities, including Ft. Wayne, Indiana and Wichita, Kansas, the foundation has a donor-advised fund operated by a local community foundation. The foundation is also a major funder of arts programs, chiefly based in museums.

More recently, as an extension of its media grantmaking, the Knight Foundation supports organizations critical of the dominance of large technology companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google.

Criticisms of Technology Companies

In July 2019, the Knight Foundation announced it would give $50 million to support what it called organizations that would analyze “technology’s role in our democracy.” The foundation allotted $39 million to creating eleven centers at universities affiliated with schools of journalism or communications that would study “the rules that should govern social media and technology companies.” The foundation noted that other foundations had also made grants to these newly created centers, including the Charles Koch Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and the Omidyar Network. 25

In August 2019, the Knight Foundation announced that $6 million of the $50 million would go to three think tanks. The Center for Technology and Society received $3 million for research on “how online platforms moderate content.” The Open Markets Institute was awarded $2 million to examine the “negative effects” of “corporate concentration of internet companies.” The R Street Institute’s $1 million grant would be used to study “a multi-stakeholder approach to the management of online content.” 26

In November 2019, the Knight Foundation awarded $3.5 million to21 organizations for short-term projects designed to aid members of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Justice in their efforts to revise the laws and regulations overseeing technology. Among the organizations receiving grants of between $100,000 and $400,000 were the center-right American Enterprise Institute, the centrist German Marshall Fund, the left-of-center Public Knowledge, and 16 universities, mostly for projects affiliated with law schools. 27

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