The Hub Project: A Foundation with a Lobbying Arm
Enter the Berger Action Fund, founded in 2007 as the Wyss Action Fund and perhaps the most unusual piece of the puzzle. Foundations are typically wary of associating themselves with 501(c)(4)…
nonprofit journalism
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Rise of the Fact-Checking
A casual political observer may take the “fact-checker” label at face value. But the entire industry (with little exception) serves as a Trojan horse to justify censorship for the political…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Money Behind Fact-Checking
PolitiFact takes the cake as the worst of the faux fact-checkers and has rightly garnered a reputation for being the most clearly biased in favor of the Left. PolitiFact originated…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Other Major Players
Other major players currently operating include Lead Stories, which is among the most prolific fact-checkers policing content on Facebook. Its staff reveals the operation to be practically a CNN offshoot.
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Pushing Censorship
In January 2018, Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s algorithm would get two changes to help boost “trusted” news outlets while suppressing their competitors. In effect, this was a Trojan horse to push…
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Future of Fact-Checking
Following his acquisition of Twitter (now X), Elon Musk revamped the Twitter fact-checking system from one only ever used to benefit the Left, to one that fact-checks everyone.
Capital Research, April 2024
In the April 2024 issue of Capital Research—a special issue on nonprofit journalism—the landscape of journalism is changing. The Left is building a nonprofit journalism empire. Fact checkers provide cover…
The Left’s Nonprofit Journalism Empire: The Nonprofit News Sector
In 2019 and 2021, Capital Research Center surveyed the changing media landscape, taking note of the increasing role of nonprofit and benefactor-driven “for-loss” media investments that are beginning to replace…
The Left’s Nonprofit Journalism Empire: Targets of Liberal Activists
In recent years—especially since the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016—liberal activists have taken a strong interest in taking over and building journalistic enterprises to promote liberal ideology,…
The Left’s Nonprofit Journalism Empire: Big Philanthropy’s Play
Retaking control of local and national narratives by controlling local journalism outlets and exploiting their higher trust are attractive propositions for left-of-center activists. To that end, the MacArthur Foundation announced…