Tin foil hat time. I found this on another site. Note that I do not endorse or condemn this information. I just thought some would find it interesting and it is related somewhat to the discussion on media:
*George Soros and the corruption of Wikipedia from within*<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722749/posts> *All I'm doing here is looking at the names and tracking them down. Let's get started. Their own website states:* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_August_2008 On August 4, invitations went out for the Funders' Briefing to be held at the Sloan Foundation in New York on September 11, 2008. Current confirmed guests include representatives from the *Ford, Hewlett,* Surdna, *Sunlight*and Stanton Foundations, *the Open Society Institute*, and National Geographic. Attending the briefing from WMF will be Erik Möller, Sara Crouse, Rebecca Handler, Stu West and me.(Prepared by: Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation) *Sue Gardner is the Executive Director<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff>of wikimedia. Moller is Deputy Director. Soros funded Wikimedia in 2008<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/2a/WMF_20072008_Annual_report.pdf>as well as 2009<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf> So just from fundraiser gatherings alone, everybody is all well acquainted with one another. This is a big indicator as to the culture that exists there * Wikimedia Advisory Board<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board> Melissa Hagemann Melissa manages the Open Access Initiative within the Information Program of the *Open Society Institute (OSI)/Soros foundations.* *Unfortunately, not everybody is honestly listed like Hagemann is.* Mitch Kapor Mitch Kapor is known equally for accomplishments including founding or co-founding the Lotus Development Corp., *Electronic Frontier Foundation*, Mitchell Kapor Founda............. *The Electronic Frontier Foundation is funded by Soros.*<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2617966/posts> * In addition, Harvard's Berkman Center<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2617966/posts?page=39#39>is also Soros funded. Kapor founded the EFF with friends of his from Berkman. * *Mitch Kapor also sits on the board of the Soros Funded Sunlight Foundation.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight_Foundation> * Rebecca MacKinnon At the *Berkman Center*, MacKinnon and her colleague Ethan Zuckerman co-founded Global Voices Online *What isn't listed about MacKinnon is what you can find right here<http://www.soros.org/initiatives/fellowship/fellows/mackinnon_2009>. She is a Soros fellow. * *As an aside note about MacKinnon, isn't it interesting that she worked for CNN?* Trevor Neilson Neilson formed DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) *with* Bill Gates, Bono and *George Soros*, served as a founding board member, and stays involved as a member of DATA's policy board. Neilson then became the Director of Public Affairs and Director of Special Projects at *the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation*, the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world. *That second paragraph is intended as an aside note, because the Gates Foundation is known for funding ACORN<http://biggovernment.com/kmooney/2010/05/17/anonymous-donors-liberal-foundations-and-labor-unions-fuel-renamed-acorn-affiliates/> * Ethan Zuckerman Ethan is the co-founder of Global Voices (globalvoicesonline.org) along with fellow advisory board member Rebecca MacKinnon. He is a research fellow at the *Berkman Center for Internet and Society* at Harvard Law School, where his work focuses on technology in the developing world. Ethan *also works with Open Society Institute's Information Program*, along with Melissa Hagemann. *I find it interesting how so much of this all seems to come full circle. The names, the groups, the similar funding patterns. Regarding the next name, I didn't do any digging into past advisory members. I stumbled into this on accident via the other searches. * Peter Suber Suber writes a blog called Open Access News *Right on the front of the Open Access' blog page<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html>, it says this: "Open Access News is supported by the Open Society Institute, the Scholarly Publi.............". (Scroll down to the bottom of the page, right hand side)* Wikimedia Board of Trustees<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees> Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's *Berkman Center for Internet and Society* in mid-2005 Jimmy Wales attended Soros birthday party<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452106/posts>. Wales also sits on the board of the Soros funded Sunlight Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight_Foundation>. Samuel Klein Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate of Harvard's *Berkman Center for the Internet and Society*. *As noted above, both Berkman and Wikimedia are (or have been)funded by Soros.* Matt Halprin Previous to Ning, Matt was Partner at Omidyar Network, the founder of eBay's philanthropic investment firm. He has previously served on the boards of *the Sunlight Foundation*....... *That is, the Soros funded Sunlight Foundation. * *Here is Soros.org* <http://www.soros.org/newsroom/news/india_20080219>*chronicling it's endeavors into India, along with the Omidyar Network and Google. Progressive Google.* *He gave a speech at Stanford's program for Liberation Technology<http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/events/using_technology_to_catalyze_largescale_social_change/>, for large scale social change. * Isn't it interesting what you can find when you just look? ==== Second thing I found was a retweet. 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