Stefan Tompson on Founding Visegrad24, Fake News, Fighting for Israel and the West

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Stefan Tompson, founder of Visegrad24 on X.

Tompson is a London-born Polish-South African PR specialist, the founder of the Visegrad24 account (the largest news aggregator from Central and Eastern Europe, with an average billion views per month across social media), the host and presenter of the historical-documentary program "Polish Heritage" on TVP, a YouTuber, and marketer with many viral campaigns behind him.

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KEY TOPICS 

• [00:00] Intro 
• [01:26] Why Come to Israel
• [02:45] Core Values
• [06:17] How Polish and Jewish History is Intertwined 
• [11:34] Israel as the Front Line to the West
• [14:25] Invasion of Ukraine and Founding Visegrad24
• [18:23] Importance of Religion to the West
• [25:40] Disinformation on Social Media
• [30:28] Citizen Journalism and Visegrad24’s Success
• [38:15] Dealing With Fake News 
• [45:35] Intellectual Decline of Society 
• [48:19] Banning TikTok in the West
• [51:09] Politics and Fake News
• [53:20] Choosing What to Publish
• [54:52] Antisemitism Affecting Global Politics
• [55:55] Rapid Fire Questions

RESOURCES

Follow Stefan Tompson on X: https://twitter.com/StefanTompson 

Follow Visegrad24 on X: https://twitter.com/visegrad24 

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CREDITS

Executive Producer: Erica Marom 

Producer: Sofi Levak

Video: Yair Cymerman

Editing: Ron Baranov

Music and Art: Uri Ar 

Design: Rony Karadi