RD: 2-28-24
Turning Point USA,
https://www.tpusa.com/
a non-profit political organization. Turning Point USA's founder, Charlie Kirk, opened up the Republican National Convention this summer.
A Left Biased article about them
Left Leaning Farms
The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) is a national, non-partisan research center on young people's civic engagement.
https://circle.tufts.edu/
Tufts
National Conference on Citizenship
National Conference On Citizenship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Conference_on_Citizenship
he NCoC to now operate under a Federal Charter. A Federal Charter is federal statue that establishes a co-operation between the government and organizations, agencies, or institutions. In 1953, the goal of the Congressional Charter was to empower “the NCoC to translate its ideals and objectives into realities. Plans for the future include both long-range and immediate projects and activates. The Conference will initiate and conduct some of these activities directly. Other, it will encourage and assist organizations and agencies in States and communities to initiate and carry on. ”There are approximately 1,478,000 non-profits in America—94 of them are chartered by Congress
The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) is a national, non-partisan research center on young people's civic engagement.
Research Date: 2-27-24
Civil Listening Corps (See Below) was Founded and is controlled by ATI ( See Below). This is a multi-tiered Troll Farm. This appears to be a network of left leaning companies, agencies, academics, non profits who monitor online communication, analyze trends and escalate "problem" traffic to educational content writers and social media network influencers to target specific demographic groups an d create a common counter message to the "problem" traffic.
Yes - this is a troll Farm that monitors troll Farms, But they track Trends they choose to:
NAFO
a list of their "Problem" issue Trends was published monthly for a while
Civic Listening Corps
Through our volunteer network, we operate campaigns to understand and combat misinformation and disinformation impacting our every aspect of our life. We coordinate with stakeholders across advocacy, academia, and journalism sectors to ensure insights are shared and accessible. We are actively monitoring problematic narratives online concerning elections and democracy, public health, climate, civil rights, and international conflict.
https://www.civiclistening.org/
algorithmic Transparency Institute (ati )
https://ati.io/
Funders
- Craig Newmark Philanthropies
- Jampart Charitable Trust
- Knight Foundation
- Omidyar Network
- National Conference on Citizenship
- Reset.tech
- Robert Pozen
- Schmidt Futures
- The Hopewell Fund
Earlier work has been funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Luminate, The Brown Institute, and The Tow Center.
John Schmidt, Engagement Coordinator
John is the Engagement Coordinator for the Civic Listening Corps. He facilitates all of our volunteer events including guided listening shifts, training, and other opportunities for volunteers to combat misinformation.
Prior to his start at the Algorithmic Transparency Institute, John was a staff member of the Stopping Cyber Suppression program at Common Cause, where he trained volunteer social media monitors to identify democracy disinformation in their online networks and beyond, as well as how to use their personal social media platform to push back on disinformation narratives without amplifying them.
John graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University with a B.A. in Political Science with a Public Policy Focus. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Myra Miranda, Partnerships Manager
Myra is the Partnerships Manager at ATI. She is responsible for identifying, cultivating, and managing external relationships with partners that seek to engage in misinformation efforts that impact their work. As part of the Civic Listening Corps, Myra is responsible for recruiting and onboarding civil society organizations to incorporate their staff and volunteers into the program.
Prior to joining ATI, Myra served as the California Civic Engagement Manager with NALEO Educational Fund, spearheading census, elections and COVID-19 campaigns to empower Latino communities. Previously, Myra assisted and led federal, state and local campaigns in key races since 2016. Myra graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Riverside.
Kaitlyn Dowling, Senior Analyst
Kaitlyn is ATI’s Senior Analyst, working closely with other ATI staff to analyze content from our Civic Listening Corps volunteers and to elevate emerging misinformation narratives to our partners for action. Previously, Kaitlyn served as the Senior Editor in the Information Disorder Lab, housed in the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. In this role, she managed a team of researchers investigating and reporting on political mis- and disinformation spreading on the social web leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Kaitlyn has also worked with a variety of organizations in executing their communications strategies, including Harvard Law School and as Content Director of Women Online, a boutique digital PR and marketing firm. Kaitlyn graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in political science from the University of New Hampshire.
https://ati.io/
.io is a country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) for the Chagos Archipelago, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). However, it has become a generic domain and is popular in the tech world since IO or I/O means input/output in computer science
Common Cause
https://www.commoncause.org/
Among their other activities, fights election disinformation. The use an Information Disorder Framework developed by the EU. they have an.int domain on their website
to register in the .int domain, the applicant must be an intergovernmental organization that meets the requirements found in RFC 1591. In brief, the .int domain is used for registering organizations established by international treaties between or among national governments
https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/voting-and-elections/stopping-cyber-suppression-and-voting-disinformation/
https://rm.coe.int/information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-researc/168076277c
