Brigade: new social network from Facebook co-founder aims to 'repair democracy'

Sean Parker invested several million dollars in the start-up last year, and he and CEO Matt Mahan believe they can inject life into Americans’ sense of civic dutyLast fall, Sean Parker, the technology billionaire behind Napster, Facebook and Spotify, invested several million dollars into a risky stealth start-up, Brigade, which has the ambitious aim of increasing mass civic participation.He takes comfort in the fact that Brigade’s wide-eyed goal “is a little bit more achievable than it may