You may not have heard of Tara McGowan, former CBS News and 60 Minutes staffer and founder of the liberal get-out-the-vote group Acronym. But chances are you will hear about her a lot more following the publication of a Nov. 25 Bloomberg Businessweek article titled, “The Left’s Plan to Slip Vote-Swaying News Into Facebook Feeds.”

McGowan, who has the campaign slogan, “Yes we can” tattooed on her left arm where President Barack Obama signed it with a pen, is a 33-year-old Democratic strategist who aims to defeat the “right-wing echo chamber” in 2020 with a left-wing echo chamber of her own.

To wit, Bloomberg Businessweek reports that she is “raising $25 million from a host of wealthy liberals to establish a for-profit media company, Courier Newsroom, that has already started rolling out digital newspapers with local reporters and editors in six key swing states — Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin — to fill the news deserts, deliver the facts favorable to Democrats that she thinks voters are missing, and counter right-wing spin.”

The report adds:

While the articles she publishes are based on facts, nothing alerts readers that Courier publications aren’t actually traditional hometown newspapers but political instruments designed to get them to vote for Democrats. And although the articles are made to resemble ordinary news, their purpose isn’t primarily to build a readership for the website: It’s for the pieces to travel individually through social media, amplifying their influence with persuadable voters.

McGowan is going to use her war chest to pay to have Couriers’ “news” stories appear on the Facebook feeds of users in crucial swing states. The data collected from those users' responses will then be used to target new users, and so on, all of it with the intention of searching out and influencing getable swing-state voters.

“Everybody who clicks on, likes, or shares an article,” McGowan said, “we get that data back to create a lookalike audience to find other people with similar attributes in the same area. So we continually grow our ability to find people.”

Amazingly, the part where she brags openly that she plans to assist the Democratic Party in the 2020 election by publishing left-wing agitprop on propaganda depositories designed to look like authentic news websites is not even the most disturbing part of the Bloomberg Businessweek article.

The most disturbing part is when it reports: “McGowan — a former journalist herself, who worked at 60 Minutes and CBS News — says she sees Courier Newsroom as a continuation of that work.”

Oh. The Democratic Party's allies in the media sometimes say the quiet part out loud, don't they?

“Despite her obvious political motivations, she says that her newspapers will supply objective, fact-based reporting no different from what appears in mainstream outlets,” Bloomberg Businessweek reports with what I presume is a straight face, “and that a firewall between Acronym’s political staff and Courier’s journalists allows the newsroom editorial independence.”

Sure.

Hilariously, the report adds that McGowan's claims of editorial independence “will almost certainly inflame those on the right and left who already believe that much of what passes for news, especially on social media, is driven by political agendas intended to manipulate unwitting readers.”

McGowan, naturally, already has a preemptive defense ready to go for her new media venture.

“A lot of people I respect will see this media company as an affront to journalistic integrity because it won’t, in their eyes, be balanced,” she told Bloomberg. “What I say to them is, Balance does not exist anymore, unfortunately.”

Indeed.