Media Matters gets 75% of budget from 5 megadonors
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At least Media Matters has deep pockets when people win fraud judgments against them.
Media Matters received $4 million from Indiana-based shopping mall magnate Debora Simon, who pledged to do everything in her power to defeat former President Donald Trump and has contributed $53 million to Democratic politicians and groups since 2018. The group also received $1.75 million from Bain Capital co-chairman Joshua Bekenstein and his wife, Anita, both of whom are prolific contributors to Democratic super PACs...gay rights activist Tim Gill’s private foundation as a major contributor to Media Matters. Gill is known for working with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D.) to bring "dark money" to the state level in the mid-2000s. Media Matters also disclosed the Stephen Silberstein Foundation and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation as major contributors...
Media Matters raised $16.5 million in 2022, which it used to lavish its top executives with lucrative salaries. Media Matters president Angelo Carusone raked in $406,000 while Brock, who left the charity in November 2022 to launch a dark money group dedicated to defending President Joe Biden, received $270,000 on top of a $189,000 payment from a deferred compensation plan.
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Wait until you discover that the president of the Heritage Foundation made twice what the president of Media Matters, and that it received most of its money from mega-donors like the Koch Brothers and Philip Morris. If we're using high executive pay and large donors as evidence of a non-profit being biased and bad.
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@hubrys Like HF matters to me. OMG do you swing & miss.
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Elon comment "Interesting. 𝕏 will add them as defendants in the lawsuit."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1743422098679173291
Isn't it wonderful MM has deep pockets
@hubrys cry more
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@blablarg18 said in Media Matters gets 75% of budget from 5 megadonors:
cry more
I don't care about Media Matters. As far as I can recall, I don't think I've ever seen any video they've made.
My comment highlights your absurd reasoning, i.e., high executive pay and funding from megadonors makes an organization questionable.
I do hope Musk adds the donors to his lawsuit, but I'm pretty sure his attorneys will explain to him how stupid that is before it happens. Not only is that not how liability works, but also I can guarantee you that all of their donations were made thru a trust (likely a Delaware Trust), which is a legally distinct person and won't get at the individuals whose name is on the trust.
But maybe Musk will make his lawyers do it, in which case I wonder how much money those trusts will extract from him in damages, sanctions, and attorneys' fees when they are summarily dismissed.