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

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Stefan Tompson, founder of Visegrad 24 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 KZbinr, 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
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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

[@aleksanderwierzejski1346]

Warto posłuchać co Stefan ma do powiedzenia! It's worth listening what Stefan is saying!

[@plbadboy]

Great interview. I started to follow Stefan on Facebook a long time ago. I'm Polish American. I didn't know he ran Visegrád24. Powodzenia przyjacielu.

[@StefanTompson]

Bardzo dziękuję! Powoli do przodu! Hopefully Visegrad24 has a big future ahead!

[@plbadboy]

@@StefanTompson I'm sure it will be. Just stay on the right path brother 😉

[@gmw3083]

Too late. Ukraine is finished. Israel is finished. The American led west is finished.

[@edge-rps]

@@StefanTompson I found you from AP and Dwood interview, keep up the work brother ✝ you are in the story of David and Goliath

[@randomtanker4355]

Stop supporting this antichrist channel

[@stevenrichardson1843]

This popped up as i was heading to bed. I didn't go. I'm not Jewish or Catholic, but this conversation was profound. It reminded me once again that we have something to protect which is vital for humanity. The dissidents in every autocratic country and culture rely on the values we hold.

[@zulubeatz1]

It is so refreshing to hear someone who understands the things that are important.

[@dlvivlviv]

Thank you! I love Visegrad24!

[@saraleigh5336]

Great interview. Thanks.

[@144Donn]

I have not watched anti-Israel content as I cannot stomach it. But, I doubt it contains a fraction of the integrity, intelligence, culture and knowledge of this interview.

[@Tali5899]

You are correct.

[@quantumdom]

Stefan - great interview and great insights. Looking forward to what you do next with Visegrád24!!

[@StefanTompson]

Thank you Dom! Levelling it up!

[@edge-rps]

Stefan is a very talented interviewer!

[@bjolie78]

Sucker upper

[@paulamarsh1]

Stefan, please chat with Douglas Murray and John Thomson...👍

[@bogzpiasku]

Świetna robota. Zrobiliście i dalej robicie różnicę. Pozdrawiam i życzę powodzenia.

[@esthermarcen7587]

nice chat, is true Idiocracy is a fantastic film.

[@kj1483]

0:57 interviewer is Michael Eisenberg, partner at Aleph ....a venture capital fund and equal partnership focused on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. also Husband, Father, Grandfather, Author and Venture Capitalist with a pod cast, “Invested”. .... speak with investors, global business leaders and some political-types to explore the values and purpose behind their businesses, the impact of technology on humanity, and the humanity behind digitization -check out whether values really create value.

[@visegrad_24]

Thanks for the conversation Michael! Much appreciated and looking forward to hosting you in Poland!

[@MarieGroenewald-eq6pk]

Thanks for the truth 🙏 God bless you

[@akivaragen]

He reminds me of polish aristocracy before WWII, like Jan Karski.

[@BLACK.ANGEL.]

14:16 AMEN!

[@maorthekinglong]

Thanks for supporting Israel ❤

[@philippwerder6993]

@StefanTomson I'm proud that you're representing our country 🇵🇱 huge respect

[@StefanTompson]

Staram się jak mogę! 🇵🇱

[@philippwerder6993]

@@StefanTompson dziękuję

[@paulamarsh1]

Poland also saved Europe at battles against the Ottomans...Today Poland refuses Muslim immigration! ​@@StefanTompson

[@StefanTompson]

Thank you so much for having me Michael!

[@aleph-vc]

It was a pleasure!

[@Przem112207]

Stefan we have hostile Russia as neighbor. Egypt, Syria etc don't have A-Bombs. Who got worse?

[@StefanTompson]

@@Przem112207 Russia, China and Iran and their acolytes are a major threat to the entire West. Poland’s national security is of course a key interest of mine.

[@bjolie78]

12:00 please stick with France, UK and Russia. Thank you very much

Bardzo ciekawy wywiad, dzięki 🙏 rozmowy słuchało się z przyjemnością

[@StefanTompson]

Dzięki Paweł - doceniam! 🇵🇱🇮🇱

[@srinathbh4262]

Lovely. Great. Just one thought, the Abrahamic religions love for One God and rejecting all else is unnecessary. Respect for all humanity, all life.

[@gil7002]

My dear friend!

[@patrickney846]

Great interview - thanks for this conversation filled with insightful takes and a positive outlook on Polish-Israeli relations.

[@StefanTompson]

Thank Paddy - means a lot coming from you man!

[@SionTJobbins]

The critique of capitalism which has been detached from Christianity (c.26'30") goes to the crux of the issue. People are not stupid, they see the same people in the USA Right who make a big thing of being Christian are exactly the same spivs who deny unions, are against living wages, want to keep healthcare private (which means billions of dollars are wasted on profits for pharma company profits and not going back into healthcare or local economy with moneu saved by the general public). Here in the UK we see the capitalist Christians and the ones now whipping up fear of muslims etc are the same spivs who privitised out utlities like gas, water, post, rail which have got worse and worse but costing the average person more whilst huge profits and wages are earned by the monopolised chiefs of those privitised companies. Sorry, but people think Christian capitalists are spivs and will play any trick to screw them - and here in the UK and the USA (even worse in the US where the christians support the totally immoral Trump) they are right. How does Stefan answer that most of the happiest countries (and not happy as in dancing and laughing all day but content and safe in themselves) are the north European countries which are least religious? How does Stefan answer that the atricities and rape in Ukraine are done in the name of Christianity - Russian Orthodox Christianity? Maybe we don't need Christianity (or Islam) to create a better, less divisive and happier society?

[@danielschwab2784]

Excellent conversation. thank you for sharing your wealth of historical knowledge.

[@StefanTompson]

Thank you Daniel! 💙

[@bronek90]

"There would be no Poland without the Jewish example?" Poland regained their state before Israel regained its state. The Jews had taken example from Poland, not the other way around.

[@StefanTompson]

Jews were a stateless people who managed to maintain their identity despite having no country of their own. Many other such people disappeared, being assimilated by their conquerors. The Poles had to maintain a nationhood for 123 years - faced with Germanisation and Russification attempts - the Jews provided a valuable example of successful resistance to such a predicament.

[@bronek90]

​@@StefanTompson As did a plethora of other ethnic groups throughout history. To suggest that Poles and their intelligentsia somehow based their strategy on that of the Jews, specifically, is nonsense. To suggest that there would be no Poland without the Jewish example is, besides being pathetically submissive, historically incorrect. Your efforts to pander to the Jewish audience are painfully obvious and distort history.

[@bronek90]

​@@StefanTompson As did plenty of other ethnicities throughout history. The Polish intelligentsia did not use any "Jewish" example in their efforts to maintain nationhood. It is also a complete fallacy to state that "there would be no Poland without the Jewish example." The statement, besides being historically incorrect, is pathetically submissive. Your efforts to pander to your Jewish audience and handlers are painfully obvious and morally repulsive.

[@tomerico1976]

I think you missed his point...it's not about who has a state first, it's the resilience of the Jewish people in diaspora and their fight for reestablishing their state in their ancestral homeland

[@gmw3083]

There would be no Russian revolution and no bolsheviks without jews. Marx was of Jewish heritage. No communism without jews

[@maltija1]

The ostrich-like reaction by democratic western societies to this war is like Noah's ark all over again, or John the Baptist's voice in the desert.

[@paulamarsh1]

Judeo-Christian values.

[@bjolie78]

Judeo christian your ass

[@mmmm-br5qr]

free Palestine

[@Md.Kamarussalihin]

Tell me you live in a cave without telling me you live in a cave

[@Ewa-wv6di]

W swoich polskich filmach telewizyjnych (Dziedzictwo) za bardzo machasz rękoma. Na anglosaski sposób. Tego nie da się oglądać! Nie rób tego chociaż na naszej ziemi.

[@alexbrown2401]

What about genocide in the Gaza ghetto?

[@StefanTompson]

What genocide?

[@eliezerbenabraham6117]

What about reading the "HAMAS chart".....?....to begin with....the same from ISLAMIC JIHAD.... HEZBOLLAH....PLO.....

[@alexbrown2401]

@@eliezerbenabraham6117 Hamas leaders are in Qatar and Turkey

[@alexbrown2401]

@@StefanTompson the one that's happening there now.

[@gmw3083]

​@@eliezerbenabraham6117What about reading the protocols of zion...

[@rolandrewolwer1727]

O czym ty mówisz Stefan, wstyd, sprzedałeś się czy Cię zastraszyli? byłeś jednym z niewielu teraz jesteś jak inni

[@paulamarsh1]

It's called critical thinking! Get over it ! 🙄