The founder of Media Matters is on a mission to build a “Twitter-like” platform that rivals the social media giant’s popularity with liberals — absent conservatives.
Democratic Party insider David Brock met with donors and power players last weekend to map out strategies for activism in the age of President Donald Trump. On the agenda were ways to improve the progressive website Shareblue, which included ideologically exclusive areas for readers who are willing to pay.
The Washington Free Beacon obtained some of the documents, which provided donors with a blueprint of Mr. Brock’s vision.
“Subscribers pay a fee to participate in a Twitter-like environment for the opposition, free from conservative trolls and harassment,” one of the Shareblue 2020 documents states. “A powerful way of merging our connection to the grassroots with our platform.”
Other documents reported by the Free Beacon reveal a desire to “weaponize oppo research” as a means to “damage Trump.”
David Sirota, formerly an editor of the International Business Times, will be the website’s new chief executive, the Free Beacon reported. Mr. Sirota will be working with a $2 million budget in 2017, which will cover 18 employees, six who will work full-time.
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• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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