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# Defeat Disinfo
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/defeat-disinfo/
- Published: 1999-01-02T15:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-02T05:28:41.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

**Defeat Disinfo** was an American political action committee based in New York. It was formed in order to “defeat disinformation” about COVID-19 and [Joe Biden](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Joe-Biden) allegedly shared by President Donald Trump.

## History

The Defeat Disinfo PAC was registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by Ben Resnik in April 2020,[\[1\]](#fn1) and terminated in January 2021.

## Donors

Donors to Defeat Disinfo include:[\[2\]](#fn2)

| 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.    | Neurodegeneration Therapeutics                        |
| Gary Bischoff        | \-                                                    |
| Jerome Block         | \-                                                    |
| Robert Boileau       | Verizon                                               |
| Douglas Braak        | \-                                                    |
| Paul Brown           | Dashboard Gear                                        |
| Timothy Thomas Brown | \-                                                    |
| Tanja Castro         | CastrolHaase                                          |
| Robert Charnas       | 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          | 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 Venture                                         |
| 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        | Plexon                                                |
| Teresa Wood          | Kaiser Permanente                                     |

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=defeat%5Fdisinfo)
- [InfluenceWatch](https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/defeat-disinfo-pac/)
- [Website (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210309061502/https://defeatdisinfo.org/)

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1. *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> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *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%5Fall> [↩︎](#fnref2)