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 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 Silicone valley venture capital firm founded by Josh Wolfe and Peter Herbert

• Owner ('18→?)

Spitfire Ventures LLC Venture capital

• Owner

BuildGroup

• Owner

Haystack Ventures

• Owner

Geekdom Fund Venture Firm

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

• Incubator

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)

Kungfu.ai

• Service/Transaction

Jataware

• Service/Transaction

DJ Patil Data Scientist, Obama Policy Advisor

• Service/Transaction

Microsoft Corporation computer technology

• client

Center for American Progress Democratic insider think tank started by former Clinton administration official John Podesta

• Built a dashboard for

Southern Poverty Law Center nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.

• Service/Transaction

Project Birmingham 2017 Disinformation campaign with the goal of electing Doug Jones to Senate

• Partner

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

• 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