John —
We’re only two months into 2024, and right-wing conspiracy theories and misinformation are already thriving online.
Did you hear the one about Taylor Swift working with the Pentagon to swing the 2024 election for Joe Biden? After right-wing influencers and media incessantly pushed the story, a new CNN poll shows that a jaw-dropping one-third of all Republicans now believe the conspiracy theory to be true.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, trustworthy local news sources are rapidly disappearing. The impact is that many communities are relying more and more on right-wing propaganda to get their news.
At COURIER, we protect democracy by publishing factual, left-leaning local news in the online spaces where right-wing lies thrive. We don’t use paywalls or chase sensational stories. Our newsrooms in 10 battleground states fearlessly call out right-wing lies and misinformation in real time.
In that spirit, we’re excited (!) to invite you to participate in our Sponsor a Newsroom Project.
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You’ve been chosen to sponsor our local news teams! Your donation will support newsrooms across ten battleground states — including Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. And that’s not all. Courier plans to open a newsroom in Texas before the 2024 election. We’ve set a goal to raise $15,000 before February ends, so can we count on you to chip in $10 now and help our newsrooms spread their stories across their states? |
The Sponsor a Newsroom project is a game changer for our battleground state newsrooms. As you read this, they are hard at work, outing right-wing bad actors and providing essential coverage of the 2024 election:
And we publish those stories in the spaces where people actually get their news: in their email inboxes and social media feeds. We put good information where misinformation thrives.
John, did we mention that this is all free? Our model doesn’t rely on paywalls or subscriptions, so we’ll never charge for our news or compromise our values to get more clicks.
Thank you for your continued support,
COURIER team