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Anonymous ID: 3d1a91 July 17, 2018, 8:05 p.m. No.2194643   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4661 >>4675

Liberal Group Behind Kavanaugh Resistance is Hiding Its Funding

 

A left-leaning advocacy group, which plans to spend millions opposing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, has obscured its funding sources through an opaque organizational structure.

Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon leads the operation, called Demand Justice, with support from alumni of the Clinton presidential campaign and former President Barack Obama’s administration.

The group plans to spend millions opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination.

Demand Justice already emulates its conservative counterparts in at least one significant respect: The group’s organizational structure fully obscures the sources of its financial support, a Daily Caller News Foundation review has found.

Demand Justice is not an independent organization. Rather, it is fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit called the Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Identifying fiscal sponsorship is sometimes difficult, as the status is established for different reasons and takes different forms. There is no category in the tax code for fiscal sponsorship, nor do sponsored projects need to be reported to the IRS.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/17/demand-justice-hiding-funding/

Anonymous ID: 3d1a91 July 17, 2018, 8:40 p.m. No.2195085   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Helsinki update: Russia ready ‘to charge’ US officials for financial ‘crimes’

 

Russia wants to charge former Ambassador Michael McFaul and several U.S. intelligence officials with financial crimes, Russian officials revealed Tuesday.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin broached the topic during his summit with President Trump, when he offered to allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to attend the questioning of Russian spies accused of conducting cyberattacks against the Democratic Party in 2016.

 

In exchange, Putin’s team wants to question McFaul and at least three National Security Agency officials in connection to a case involving Bill Browder, a hedge fund manager who has led an international effort to impose sanctions on Russian officials implicated in human rights abuses.

“We’re ready to send another request to the U.S. authorities to grant us permission to question these very employees of the U.S. intelligence agencies, as well as a number of other U.S. government officials and businessmen, in order to charge them for the crimes committed by Browder," said Alexander Kurennoy, head of the Russia’s Office of Prosecutor General’s Mass Media Department, per the state-run Sputnik News.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/helsinki-update-russia-ready-to-charge-us-officials-for-financial-crimes

Anonymous ID: 3d1a91 July 17, 2018, 8:57 p.m. No.2195260   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Sparks fly at hearing on anti-conservative bias in tech

 

During the hearing, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) pressed Facebook on why it had allegedly shown content from Gateway Pundit, when content from other users had been blocked. Gateway Pundit is a far-right website that has promoted hoax stories in the past.

King asked if lawmakers should review legal safeguards that allow companies to avoid liability for much of the user-generated content that is posted on their platforms.

“If this gets further out of hand, it appears to me that Section 230 needs to be reviewed,” King said, referring to part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

The provision has widely been seen as pivotal in allowing the growth of web companies by protecting them from frivolous lawsuits over content created by users.

 

But YouTube's Downs and the other executives said that they shouldn't be held to the same standards as media companies. They said online platforms don't edit users' copy or make editorial judgments in the same way newspapers do.

Throughout the hearing, they stressed that social media platforms are different from publishers and shouldn't be held to the same legal rules.

 

Raskin asked Bickert why InfoWars was still on Facebook, despite apparently violating the company's policies by repeatedly posting false stories. InfoWars is a website that has promoted conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, among others.

Bickert told him that Facebook had removed content from Infowars but that they “have not reached the threshold” for removal yet.

Pressed on what that red line was, Bickert said only that it "depends."

 

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/397474-republicans-slam-tech-companies-over-anti-conservative-bias-democrats-slam