====== Defeat Disinfo ======

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**Defeat Disinfo** was an American political action committee based in [[united_states:New York]]. It was formed in order to "defeat disinformation" about [[COVID-19]] and [[Joe Biden]] allegedly shared by President [[Donald Trump]]. The PAC was terminated in January 2021.

===== History =====

The Defeat Disinfo PAC was registered with the [[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC) by [[Ben Resnik]] in April 2020.((//Reports Image Index for Committee ID: C00743625.// Federal Election Commission. Retrieved April 24, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230424054314/https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?C00743625))

===== Organization =====

==== Donors ====

Donors to Defeat Disinfo include:((//Organizations Disclosing Donations to Defeat Disinfo PAC, 2020.// OpenSecrets. Retrieved April 24, 2023, from https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2020?cmte=C00743625&tab=donors_all))

^ Name  ^ Affiliation  ^
| -  | [[Main Street One]]  |
| -  | [[Red White & Definitely Blue]]  |
| [[Harvey Allon]]  | [[Braddock Financial]]  |
| [[Jeff Atwood]]  | [[Stack Overflow]], [[Stack Exchange]]  |
| [[Stephen Ball]]  | [[Frontier Communications]]  |
| [[David Baver]]  | [[Western Governors University]]  |
| [[James Bennett Jr.]]  | [[pharmaceutical_companies:Neurodegeneration Therapeutics]]  |
| [[Gary Bischoff]]  | -  |
| [[Jerome Block]]  | -  |
| [[Robert Boileau]]  | [[Verizon]]  |
| [[Douglas Braak]]  | -  |
| [[Paul Brown]]  | [[Dashboard Gear]]  |
| [[Timothy Thomas Brown]]  | [[Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists]] (SAG-AFTRA)
| [[Tanja Castro]]  | [[CastrolHaase]]  |
| [[Robert Charnas]]  | [[pharmaceutical_companies:Regeneron Pharmaceuticals]]  |
| [[Marc Chiang]]  | [[Duff & Phelps]]  |
| [[Kristen Coates]]  | -  |
| [[Jerry Cotlov]]  | -  |
| [[Judy Davis]]  | -  |
| [[Brian Dunn]]  | [[ZS]]  |
| [[Brian Fargo]]  | [[Inxile Entertainment]]  |
| [[Gerald Flannelly]]  | [[Faust Financial Management]]  |
| [[Dan Freda]]  | -  |
| [[Jeremy Fryer-Biggs]]  | -  |
| [[Matthew Haicken]]  | [[Haicken Law]]  |
| [[Stephen Harris]]  | -  |
| [[Gregory Hawkins]]  | [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] (NIST)  |
| [[Jamie Holland]]  | -  |
| [[James Humphreys]]  | [[James F. Humphreys & Associates]]  |
| [[Steven Jacobs]]  | [[Blue State Digital]]  |
| [[Richard Jones]]  | -  |
| [[David Keefe]]  | -  |
| [[William Kind]]  | -  |
| [[Jim Kirkland]]  | [[VMWare]]  |
| [[Mary Klinkel]]  | [[Canyon Ranch]]  |
| [[Matthew Lammers]]  | [[IBM]]  |
| [[Arthur Libera]]  | [[Eye for Art]]  |
| [[Xiangyang Liu]]  | [[Ains]]  |
| [[David Markun]]  | [[Routine Miracles]]  |
| [[David McLure]]  | [[Practical Venture Capital]]  |
| [[Andie Moore]]  | [[pharmaceutical_companies:Genentech]]  |
| [[John Moynes]]  | -  |
| [[Deborah Noble]]  | [[West Wind Forest Products]]  |
| [[Peter Norvig]]  | [[Google]]  |
| [[Christopher Noxon]]  | -  |
| [[Steven Pinker]]  | [[Harvard University]]  |
| [[Barbara Radnofsky]]  | -  |
| [[Jay Reba]]  | -  |
| [[David Reines]]  | [[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]  |
| [[Vivien Ressler]]  | -  |
| [[Jason Rhodes]]  | [[Atlas Veture]]  |
| [[Perry Rogers]]  | [[PR Partners]]  |
| [[Jonathan Rubini]]  | [[JL Properties]]  |
| [[Robert Scott]]  | -  |
| [[James Sebenius]]  | [[Harvard Business School]]  |
| [[Arthur Segel]]  | [[Harvard Business School]]  |
| [[Srikanth Shoroff]]  | [[Microsoft]]  |
| [[Jennifer Allan Soros]]  | [[Give Lively]]  |
| [[Robert Spiegelman]]  | [[BTHR Solutions]]  |
| [[Robert Scott]]  |
| [[Jay Steiner]]  | [[Deutsche Bank]]  |
| [[Joe White]]  | -  |
| [[Donald Wolman]]  | [[medical_technology_companies:Plexon]]  |
| [[Teresa Wood]]  | [[Kaiser Permanente]]  |
===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/defeat-disinfo-pac/|InfluenceWatch]]
  * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210309061502/https://defeatdisinfo.org/|Website (archived)]]