3. Producer Ian Inaba was formerly employed by the Israeli technology company [[Check Point]]. The company's founder, Gil Shwed, formerly served in the secretive Unit 8200 electronic warfare branch of the [[Israeli Military]]. Whether Inaba's employment with [[Check Point]] should be considered evidence of links to Israeli Intelligence remains contested.
4. The fact that GNN has received funding from the [[Ford Foundation]] for their documentary [[American Blackout]], which chronicles the disenfranchisement of the African-American votevoters from the Civil Rights era to today. There is no evidence that the Foundation's funding altered the film's content in any way. The grant was recieved by GNN after the film was completed and screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. However, critics claim that the Ford Foundation has had ties to CIA in the past and that it funds moderate-left media sources as a matter of propping them up over more radical sources, rather than altering funded content itself. This issue, like the rest of the accusations, remains hotly debated.
It is important to note that no "smoking gun"direct evidence exists to definitively prove the accusers' hypothesis, though they argue that this is due to the nature of psy-ops themselves, and that it's a matter of "connecting the dots." Supporters of GNN have argued that such an approach is unnecessarily speculative and unreliable. The accusers admit to being a group of four former GNN community members. Apart from one vocal critic, Canadian Andrew Stromotich, they have refused to reveal their identities. This has prompted several GNN users to put forth the counter-hypothesis that their allegations are motivated by personal or professional agendas and that their allegations fail to take into account GNN's large body of work criticizing and investigating the CIA in particular, and U.S. government policies in general. The anonymous accusers in turn deny that this is the case.
==See also==
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* [http://gnn.tv/ gnn.tv]
* [http://www.guerrillanews.com/about/faq.php About GNN]
* [http://anthony.gnn.tv/ The Bunker, Anthony Lappe's blog]
* [http://silverback.gnn.tv/ Revolutionary Theory, Stephen Marshall's blog]
* [http://www.smartamerican.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=450 GNN Is A Psy-Op (Original Document)]
* [http://sundaymag.ca/index.php?id=435 GNN Is A Psy-Op (Sunday Magazine)]
