Recently the Free Speech Union was a victim of misinformation at the hands of The Guardian. In a piece published last month, the paper claimed that the Trump administration was to grant $12 million to “groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young”.
Ahead of its publication, Toby refuted the claims to be made in the piece, put to him in an email by a journalist called Aisha Down. It’s worth reading this piece to get all the details – or this Twitter post.
I was curious to see Down sign off in her emails as a “Senior Tarbell Fellow”. What on earth is that? I wondered. Although it’s not the main takeaway of the story, it’s certainly an interesting rabbit hole – showing how many players there are now in journalism.
Down’s fellowship is with something called “The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism”, as you can see from her Guardian profile here…
… as well as the Tarbell Centre’s own website:
