Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death

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3. And this wingnut *network* - The Center Square nee Watchdog.org, via anonymous Donors Trust

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Center_Square

The Center Square, formerly Watchdog.org,

is an American conservative news website that features reporting on state and local governments.[2][3] It is a project of the Franklin News Foundation, an American conservative online nonprofit news organization.[2][4] The Center Square distributes its content through a newswire service. ....

The Center Square is a project of the Franklin News Foundation (formerly called the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity), an American conservative online nonprofit news organization.[7] The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012 called the Franklin Center "perhaps the most ambitious conservative news organization you’ve never heard of", said its productivity was "impressive," and noted the original news reporting produced by websites it funded in 18 states at the time.[2]

The Franklin Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, received 95% of its 2011 revenue from mostly anonymous benefactors via the American nonprofit donor-advised fund Donors Trust, which is a major source of funding for conservative groups.[4] ....

The Project for Excellence in Journalism of the Pew Research Center surveyed and analyzed nonprofit news organizations active on the state or national level in 2011 and again in 2013.[10][11] The studies found that the most consistently ideological of the news outlets were those that were organized in networks, specifically the conservative Watchdog network and the liberal American Independent News Network.[12][10] ....

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