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Non-profit
The Public Goods Project is a public health advocacy organization that runs media campaigns on behalf of its funders regarding a variety of public health issues. The organization is a nonprofit, however it acts as a public affairs firm executing and implementing state, local, and national public health campaigns. The
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Non-profit
The Dangerous Speech Project is a project of the New Venture Fund to promote online censorship. The Dangerous Speech Project advocates for censoring speech that it argues can lead to violence. It defines speech as any form of human expression and argues that any speech that can inspire violence
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Non-profit
The American Principles Project is a right-of-center organization that opposes critical race theory and the promotion of “gender ideology” in schools, as well as in high school sports.
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Non-profit
The Black Youth Project (BYP) is an online publishing site providing content encompassing a variety of issues and resources geared towards young African Americans. The main areas of focus are culture, sex, and politics, as well as the purported challenges faced by younger Black Americans.
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Non-profit
The Global Critical Literacy Media Project (GCLMP) is a left-of-center joint venture project between the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) and Project Censored—both of which are organizations that are active in the left-leaning political education sphere, with a strong focus on targeting students.
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Non-profit
Free Press is an anti-business media advocacy organization that supports tighter governmental control over the internet, blocking the consolidation of media companies, and race-and-gender-focused federal regulations to install women and minorities in leadership positions in the media.
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Other Group
Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) is a research laboratory located within Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center for the Study of Information Technology that is focused on the concepts of “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
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Other Group
The Trusted News Initiative is a coalition of left-of-center media organizations and social media companies created by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2019 with the “specific aim of flagging disinformation during elections.”
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For-profit
TikTok is a social-media service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. 1
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Other Group
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) is a London-based think tank focused on combatting alleged disinformation on online news sites. According to the GDI, “brands unwittingly provide an estimated quarter of a billion dollars annually to disinformation websites.”
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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Person
Yoel Roth is a senior employee of the social media company Twitter. His title is “Head of Site Integrity,” a position which involves developing policies related to spam blocking and data protection, as well as the site’s practice of selective censorship and narrative shaping, particularly when it comes to
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For-profit
TED Foundation Inc. (commonly known as TED or TED Conferences) hosts speeches and discussions on a wide array of topics. It is best known for its “TED Talks,” speeches of no more than 18 minutes given by prominent scientists, businesspeople, artists, and others which have been viewed billions of times
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Non-profit
Vera R. Campbell Foundation is a grantmaking foundation located in Los Angeles, California. Its grants are allocated primarily to left-leaning Los Angeles-based organizations that focus on education, the arts, social services, and public policy. The foundation has no full-time employees.
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Non-profit
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontiers) (RSF), is a Paris-based advocacy group supporting government transparency and journalistic freedom worldwide, documenting and reporting information, and lobbying various organizations such as the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
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Person
Reed Hastings is the cofounder, chairman, and co-CEO of Netflix and a major Democratic political donor. During the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign, Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, raised over $100,000 on behalf of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Person
Yuen-Ying Chan is a writer and founder of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at Hong Kong University. She has additionally worked as a journalist for the New York Daily News and NBC News. She has worked as an advisor to The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for
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For-profit
Alphabet is an American multinational technology conglomerate best known as the parent company of Google. It began as a search engine start-up in 1998 and has since expanded into email, video, computer hardware products, and numerous other technology endeavors. As of 2018, Alphabet was one of the largest and
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Labor Union
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) is the main labor union representing teachers and other staff of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in southern California, the nation’s second-largest school district. UTLA is affiliated with both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. UTLA has engaged in
