The donor-funded ProPublica news organization bills itself as an “independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force… shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust.”
But conservative activists are calling foul, saying that ProPublica, founded in 2007 by former Wall Street Journal editor Paul Steiger, has a left-wing bias and is funded mainly by left-wing fat cat donors including George Soros — some of whom are not named by the news site.
They say ProPublica’s reporters and editors — some of whom are very well-paid according to tax filings — attack right-leaning figures and organizations, often for a lack of transparency, without actually revealing all the names of their own donors.
Though ProPublica, which listed donations of more than $35 million in 2021 — its most recent disclosure to the IRS — appears to go above and beyond what the IRS requires they disclose about their donors, there is a layer of opacity and fine print that ultimately obscures some of their contributions.
In 2020 and 2021, the organization took in a total of $6.3 million from donors it kept anonymous.
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