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Turns out that Anna Soellner, a Director at Internews Network, also serves as the VP of Communications at Reddit

https://web.archive.org/web/20240721131746/https://internews.org/people/anna-soellner/

https://theorg.com/org/reddit/org-chart/anna-soellner

https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/wikileaks-drops-bombshell-about-usaid

For context, Wikileaks revealed that USAID has given nearly half-a-billion dollars to Internews Network, a government-funded NGO. Internews Network has worked with over 4,291 media outlets, producing broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and training over 9,000 journalists.

The organization has offices in over 30 countries, including the US, London, Paris, and regional headquarters in Kiev, Bangkok, and Nairobi.

Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year, heads the organization and has a history with USAID. Internews Network's website has recently removed bios of key people and board members, but records show the board being co-chaired by Democratic donors Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe.

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  • Yeah we already knew reddit was crawling with feds

    • The whole site is feds arguing with other feds, bots, and corporate marketers over who gets to be more racist.

    • didnt they coup a bunch of mods to be able to control many defaults? more than once actually, no?

      i wonder how the feds will try to interfere with lemmy once it gets enough momentum.