Media Funding Sources

Cluster centers on debates about the funding behind news organizations, think tanks, and nonprofits linked to the article, frequently citing donors like George Soros, Koch brothers, Gates Foundation, and others to question bias or credibility.

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sprash May 21, 2019 View on HN

This news source is funded by George Soros.

cartercole Dec 4, 2018 View on HN

we have known this and they state it publicly... who funded this?

s9w May 19, 2020 View on HN

Financed by none other than the Open Society Foundations (aka George Soros).

jdkee Jan 15, 2020 View on HN

That is from the Heritage Foundation. Funded by the Koch brothers. Do better next time.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government...

lukejduncan Feb 4, 2014 View on HN

It took some digging to figure out who is backing this. It looks like it's an org called the Tenth Amendment Center. Does anyone know who these guys are? Are they reputable? Will my money actually go to this cause?

shaki-dora Nov 10, 2018 View on HN

Because I have frequently seen conspiracy theories regarding George Soros even on HN, I want to take this opportunity to point out that the organisation reporting this is sponsored by him, via his Open Society Foundation.It's also fairly representative of their projects. In the way that, having been marginally involved with some of the work they do in Eastern Europe, I went looking for information on their sponsors with the specific expectation of finding the OSF among them.

ceejayoz Jun 5, 2023 View on HN

Having never heard of this org, I looked them up on Wikipedia. Fascinatingly: initial funding "included half a million dollars each from George Soros' Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch's Koch Foundation".Don't see that combo every day.

FiloSottile Jan 15, 2019 View on HN

This is old (2014) FUD about funding sources, which are obviously public like for any other 501c3.

bloomingkales Feb 23, 2025 View on HN

Yeah. How come none of their other articles have this at the bottom:Support for this project was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.Per wiki:With assets of approximately $14 billion, Hewlett is one of the wealthiest grant makers in the United States.Hmph. I guess the millions of successful college graduates are not providing enough positive PR mindshare, so they had to go buy some. Can't wait for their fine tuned LLM.

rrdharan Apr 20, 2021 View on HN

Is it fair to call this non-profit funded? The money comes from Bloomberg and Google.