CIA Funds WePlot Start-Up For Journalists

The CIA venture capital fund In-Q-Tel has announced it is funding the entire Series A round for co-working startup WePlot for corporate journalists.

The start up was conceived by a former deputy director of the CIA and an MIT professor of business ergonomics who has been on the CIA payroll for decades.

WePlot got right to work buying up office space in New York and Washington D.C. The New York Times and Washington Post have announced they are moving their entire foreign correspondent staff, foreign policy staff and politics departments to the new co-working spaces, along with the Atlantic, the Economist and Foreign Policy magazines.

ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC all praised the idea for its efficiency in coordinating their daily narratives and will all have teams in WePlot offices.

In New York WePlot will be located across the street from the United Nations, while in the capitol they will be next door to the Canon House Office building on the hill where it will be easier to meet with Speaker Pelosi's team on coordinating stories and narratives on race, white supremacy and domestic terrorism.

Washington Post Assistant Editor Malik Ahmed said this would streamline coordination processes with CIA officers.

WePlot has plans to expand in silicon valley with representatives from Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter meeting with news agencies together in real time to coordinate which authoritative sources will be allowed on their platforms instead of getting daily memos from the CIA. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a statement early today celebrating the start-up, "We need more Wangs out there to probe for the truth. It's just a big win for democracy and in the war against misinformation."

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