Yonder (Formerly New Knowledge)

Leadership & Staff

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Jonathon Morgan Founder & chief executive of  Yonder (formerly New Knowledge)  a disinformation research firm

• Founder

Renee DiResta Disinformation Researcher, former CIA intern, Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory

• Director of Research (Feb 1 '18→Apr 1 '19)

Rachele Gilman Disinformation researcher

• Senior Analyst ('18→Feb 1 '19)

Chris Albon Cofounder of Popily / New Knowledge

• Cofounder

Vidya Spandana

• Co-founder, Chief Growth Officer (Jun 1 '15→May 1 '17)

Garrett Honke Yonder data scientist

• Position

Numa Dhamani Yonder data scientist

• Position

Paul Azunre Yonder Data scientist

• Position

Craig Corcoran Yonder Data Scientist

• Position

Robert Matney Yonder Researcher; Actor

• VP of Government Affairs (past)*

Owners

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Lux Capital Silicon valley venture capital firm founded by Josh Wolfe and Peter Herbert

• Owner ('18→?)

Spitfire Ventures LLC Venture capital

• Owner (Jan 29 '18→?)

Geekdom Fund Venture Firm

• Owner (Aug 29 '18→?)

BuildGroup

• Owner

Haystack Ventures

• Owner

Moonshots Capital Austin, Texas based venture firm

• Owner ('18→?)

Notable Capital Venture firm

• Owner

TechStars, LLC Venture capital firm

• incubator

Capital Factory Tech Incubator, co-working and event  space  located in Austin, Texas

• Investor

Primer Technologies Artificial-intelligence company

• Owner

Board Members

Ryan Fox Co-founder of Yonder and former NSA analyst

• Co-founder & COO

Kelly Perdew Investor and cofounder of Moonshots Capital

• Advisor & Board Member

Annie Shafran Klomhaus Former New Knowledge Employee

• Board Member

Donors

Investing in Us a for-profit investment fund founded by billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and former Progressive Policy Institute senior fellow Dmitri Mehlhorn

• Donation/Grant · 100,000 USD

Reid Hoffman Cofounder of LinkedIn, now an investment partner with Greylock Partners

• Donation/Grant

Holdings

Dry Alabama False flag operation by New Knowledge

• Owner

Child Organizations

Data For Democracy Volunteer Data Scientists Working on "Social Impact"

• Founded by same person

DisInfo 2018

• Child Org

Memberships

Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP)

• Member

Services & Transactions

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Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) Counterintelligence research program lead by DARPA and the research laboratory seeking to apply bot-based social engineering efforts to counter  social engineering by adverse parties

• Service/Transaction

Ushahidi an open source software application which utilises user-generated reports to collate and map data

• Incubator

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Military’s research hub

• Award Recipient ('14→?)

American Engagement Technologies

• Service/Transaction

US Department of State Federal executive department responsible for carrying out U.S. foreign policy and international relations

• Client

Alliance for Securing Democracy non-partisan transatlantic national security advocacy group; Creator of Hamilton 68

• Service/Transaction

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. Technology and management consulting services

• Subprime Award S902159BAH · 600,000 USD (Feb 4 '19→May 15 '19)*

Democracy Integrity Project 501(c)(4) organization with the purported goal of researching election interference with links to multiple organizations accused of spreading disinformation

• Research Consulting · 230,000 USD ('18)

DARPA's Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M) DARPA program

• Service/Transaction

Kungfu.ai

• Service/Transaction

Miscellaneous Relationships

Joohn Choe Former Facebook Trust and Safety staff

• Affiliation

Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State & NY Senator; 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate

• Affiliation ('17→'18)*

Tovo Labs Disinformation research firm

• Affiliation

4chan right-wing social media platform

• investigator

Neal Rauhauser Disinformation researcher

• Affiliation*

Jeff Giesea Protégé of Peter Thiel

• Affiliation

Yael Eisenstat Former CIA and Facebook Whistleblower

• Affiliation

Doug Jones politician, attorney, CNN contributor, former U.S. Senator from Alabama; candidate for Alabama Governor

• benefited from disinformation campaign

Internet Research Agency Russian troll 'Trolls of Olgino' farm to influence operations on behalf of Russian business & political interests

• Affiliation

Roy Moore Former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Republican candidate for US Senate in 2017 special election

• Affiliation