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Columbia Journalism Review / Priyanjana Bengani
/ Nov 1, 2022“The news sites can easily be mistaken for independent local outlets and—as previous investigations by the Tow Center have shown—are part of a larger network that received funding from multiple dark-money groups and pacs. The funding is not disclosed; neither are the network’s collaborations with special-interest groups. The practice of publishing stories that boost the positions of special-interest groups interspersed between thousands of algorithmically generated stories and republished press releases across the network’s twelve hundred sites continues.” —HT
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