The group that runs the prominent fact-checking site PolitiFact is using money from Left-leaning activists to pay journalists “grants” of $10,000 or more to write about “extremism,” “anti-transgender groups,” and the successes of Joe Biden’s budget-busting American Rescue Plan.
The
Poynter Institute, which holds itself out as a nonpartisan group of
journalism experts, is using money from the Joyce Foundation, the Gill
Foundation, and the Catena Foundation to fund classes for journalists
across the country guiding them on how to cover topics such as “climate
change” and “transgender medical care.” Some participants will then be
paid grants, bankrolled by activist foundations, to write about
particular topics for their employers. ---More...