Post ATfpP5rzJzLfSW1Itk by juddlegum@journa.host
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(DIR) Post #ATfpP4Zs7rGNS2XK1Q by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:37:16Z
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1. Fox News' @JesseBWatters@twitter.com told millions of viewers that Silicon Valley Bank "donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter."Similar claims went viral on TwitterSome "facts" are too good to checkThe actual amount that SVB donated to BLM is ZEROFollow along for receipts 🧾
(DIR) Post #ATfpP5BnqpbXLgHc92 by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:39:15Z
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@JesseBWatters@twitter.com 2. @FoxNews@twitter.com hosts made this claim repeatedly.@TuckerCarlson@twitter.com said SVB "spent more than $73 million on donations to BLM and related organizations." Each claim is phrased slightly differently but they are all FALSEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c88grncPe2o&t=29s
(DIR) Post #ATfpP5rzJzLfSW1Itk by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:42:17Z
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@JesseBWatters@twitter.com @FoxNews@twitter.com @TuckerCarlson@twitter.com 3. The reports are based on a database produced by the right-wing @ClaremontInst@twitter.com.The database tracks pledges to groups related to BLM, including BLM Global Network Foundation and BLM PAC. The database says SVB donated ZERO to all these orgshttps://popular.info/p/silicon-valley-bank-donated-zero
(DIR) Post #ATfpP6XSpmWdX9QQXw by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:44:23Z
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@JesseBWatters@twitter.com @FoxNews@twitter.com @TuckerCarlson@twitter.com @ClaremontInst@twitter.com 4. So where does the $73 million come from? The database also includes "organizations and initiatives that advance one or more aspects of BLM’s agenda."According to @ClaremontInst@twitter.com the "agenda" of BLM is to "undermine capitalism, the nation state, and Western civilization."
(DIR) Post #ATfpP74QrCtfBOqkvw by JacobRussell@mastodon.social
2023-03-16T12:50:37Z
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@juddlegum I get why people cross post from Twitter to Mastodon, but posts like this with a ton of Twitter tags make a mess of the Mastodon timeline. Not sure there's an easy solution to that, but I'm not sure this is a good approach.
(DIR) Post #ATfpP7iqQxDtCjl1vM by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2023-03-16T12:52:48Z
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@JacobRussell @juddlegum I call it twit posting.
(DIR) Post #ATfpPB9BhT4rpJ6btw by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:47:15Z
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@JesseBWatters@twitter.com @FoxNews@twitter.com @TuckerCarlson@twitter.com @ClaremontInst@twitter.com 5. $50M of the $73M comes from a *pledge* SVB made in 2021 on an internal initiative. The program sought to connect women, Black people, and Latinos with funding, networking, and development in the VC ecosystemThe money was to be spent over 5 years.https://popular.info/p/silicon-valley-bank-donated-zero
(DIR) Post #ATfpPCxuwLFbSvqdc0 by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:49:12Z
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@JesseBWatters@twitter.com @FoxNews@twitter.com @TuckerCarlson@twitter.com @ClaremontInst@twitter.com 6. Integrating marginalized groups into the venture capitalist community seems like an odd way to "undermine capitalism," the purpose of BLM, according to the @ClaremontInst@twitter.com. Further, the money wasn't "donated" to anyone and most of it hasn't been spent
(DIR) Post #ATfpPEiOR21MtMbGgy by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:51:13Z
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@JesseBWatters@twitter.com @FoxNews@twitter.com @TuckerCarlson@twitter.com @ClaremontInst@twitter.com 7. Another $20 million the @ClaremontInst@twitter.com says was BLM-related was donated "to support additional COVID-19 relief" and establish a "full-ride, needs-based" at four universitiesIt's unclear what either of those things has to do with BLM, but they are included in the $73M total
(DIR) Post #ATfso3QFrD4UyFdqd6 by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:53:17Z
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8. Rounding out the Claremont Institute database is a 2020 "matching campaign for employees who donate money or time to social justice orgs, which raised nearly $400,000." The identity of these groups is not disclosed, but Claremont assumes they must be related to BLM.
(DIR) Post #ATfso40lfSHKnUj0Xg by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:55:11Z
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9. The database includes $250,000 of donations from the SVB Foundation in "corporate donations to the NAACP [and] ACLU"@ClaremontInst@twitter.com considers these orgs "BLM partners." In fact, they are two of the oldest & most respected civil rights and civil liberties orgs in the US
(DIR) Post #ATfso4k8wkZh4DxFGi by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T12:59:10Z
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@ClaremontInst@twitter.com 10. @ClaremontInst@twitter.com did not respond to my request for comment. But I also identified $2.8 million in money that was misdated. @ClaremontInst@twitter.com added a "correction" to its database and now has a new figure of SVB donations to "BLM Movement and related causes": $70,650,000
(DIR) Post #ATfso5TAFMaTJr1CRU by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T13:01:05Z
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11. Thanks for making it this far.But don't rely exclusively on this platform, which is controlled by a right-wing billionaire, to get accurate information.Subscribe to Popular Information and get it directly.It's free to sign up.http://popular.info/subscribe
(DIR) Post #ATfso67vnnCHMI5kzA by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T13:03:03Z
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12. @ClaremontInst@twitter.com, BTW, has a record of pushing misinformation. John Eastman, who sits on the Board, “helped lead [former President] Trump’s drive to overturn the results of the 2020 election.” Jack Posobiec, who “promoted the false Pizzagate conspiracy theory" was a fellow
(DIR) Post #ATfso6jVY5FrEpflYW by juddlegum@journa.host
2023-03-16T13:15:19Z
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@ClaremontInst@twitter.com 13. The objectively false statistic is still spreading rapidly online. Here is a headline from the @dcexaminer@twitter.com last night.
(DIR) Post #ATfso7IxQHbx0mG4oK by LindaVT@mstdn.social
2023-03-16T13:20:38Z
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@juddlegum too many members of our news media don’t grasp the very real fact that the political right is waging a full on war against everything our democratic republic is built upon. Why are so few reporters covering this madness accurately?
(DIR) Post #ATl1TJJBT9GnXLJkIK by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-03-18T21:19:07Z
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@juddlegum The Claremont Institute is the source for boilerplate red state legislation for anti-LGBTQ, pro-insurrection legal theories, the forced birth laws since Koch Bought a Supreme Court, and the deregulation disinformation campaigns that caused East Palestine.https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-claremont-institute/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/11/claremont-whitewash-eastman-memo/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/09/claremont-institute-secret-sheriff-fellowship-curriculum-revealed.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/24/claremont-john-eastman-trump/https://www.salon.com/2023/03/17/how-a-far-right-think-tank-made-everything-woke/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/claremont-sheriffs-fellows-2022-authoritarianism-second-amendment.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.htmlhttps://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2022/10/extraordinary-influence-claremont-institute-american-right
(DIR) Post #ATl1X2ZTdiYimliWGG by edgeoforever@mastodon.world
2023-03-19T01:02:17Z
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@Npars01 “once distinguished “🙄