Courier Newsroom, an organization largely funded by billionaire George Soros, is ramping up in Nevada, where its local news website has been boosting coverage through digital advertising to push back against former President Donald Trump and other Republicans.  Soros is a Marxist.

     In 2023, Courier, founded by former journalist and Democrat operative Tara McGowan, added The Nevadan to its roster of local websites, Washington Free Beacon reported.  Its offerings, highly publicized through ads on social media, include stories such as an incorrect claim that Trump would bring back a military draft. Trump has rejected that possibility, speaking out after a Washington Post article that made similar claims.

     McGowan, when starting Courier, said the network has a goal of combating disinformation, but The Free Beacon pointed out that The Nevadan has been placing "deceptive" ads on Facebook to attack Republicans and to prop up Democrat nominee Kamala Harris and Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.  The Courier and its 11 local newsrooms are all located in swing states.

I     n 2020, media watchdog NewsGuard referred to Courier as a "clandestine political operation" that has "deceived" voters, and McGowan, in a leaked 2019 memo, according to the network In Nevada, said readers signed up for the outlet's newsletter believing that they were getting local news coverage, but instead, soon found they were getting political content.