Leftist billionaire and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is bankrolling a sketchy “dark-money group” that’s pushing a company boycott marketing campaign towards Twitter proprietor Elon Musk.

The Omidyar Community gave the anti-Musk Accountable Tech $509,500 between 2021 and 2022, in keeping with Omidyar Community information. The Washington Free Beacon, who additionally reported on the funding, stated Omidyar additionally gave $2 million extra to different teams attacking and writing items slamming Musk for his takeover of Twitter. One leftist Omidyar-funded group, Free Press, claimed in a assertion Musk’s pro-free speech Twitter plans would make it a “free-for-all of hate and harassment.”

Accountable Tech and different Omidyar-funded teams have issued calls for for investigations into Musk and campaigns aiming to stress companies into boycotting Twitter. An Omidyar Community spokeswoman reportedly verified the funding to Free Beacon however claimed the community didn’t direct the boycott marketing campaign.

The Free Beacon defined, “After the Free Beacon reached out for touch upon Monday, the Omidyar Community edited its database to point out only one $209,500 grant to ‘North Fund 2022 Accountable Tech P&P Venture Funding’ on Oct. 24, 2022. It additionally eliminated the grants to 2 different organizations that criticized Musk.”

MRC Free Speech America and Enterprise  confirmed by way of the Wayback Machine that Omidyar Community listed the $509,500 grant on its web site.

Accountable Tech reportedly claims to be a “‘small nonprofit taking over Massive Tech firms’—[but] has no bodily footprint and is a registered commerce title of the North Fund, a $66 million nonprofit group that makes use of aliases to push an array of left-wing causes from a shell workplace in Washington, D.C,” in keeping with Free Beacon’s evaluation.

Omidyar-funded teams Accountable Tech and UltraViolet wrote a joint letter with Media Issues for America in 2022 to Twitter advertisers claiming Musk’s  buy would “toxify our info ecosystem” and urged advertisers to “pull your promoting spending from Twitter.” 

Two teams funded by the billionaire reportedly urged the Disney, Apple, Amazon and Coca-Cola CEOs to ditch Twitter promoting. As well as, Omidyar-funded Open Markets Institute urged the Justice Division to research Musk’s Twitter buy.

However Omidyar is not any stranger to attempting to regulate the narrative. As MRC Enterprise reported just lately, Omidyar additionally launched an “formidable” journalism challenge, Reporters in Residence, in January. This system’s focus is “Reimagining Capitalism” via financial and journalistic reporting, aiming to uproot the present capitalist system. Omidyar additionally helped fund pro-censorship Fb whistleblower Frances Haugen in 2021.

Conservatives are beneath assault. Contact ABC Information (818) 460-7477, CBS Information (212) 975-3247 and NBC Information (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on Omidyar’s scheme to undermine free speech on Twitter and to unfold his leftist affect on journalism to reimagine capitalism.