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PragerU, The Daily Wire, countless far-right talk shows, YouTube channels, think tanks, and online magazines. Where are they all coming from, and why are they all so well funded? Let’s take a look at the groups bankrolling far-right rhetoric and what they stand to gain from platforming these people.
Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Yugopnik’s video on the online right
https://youtu.be/ggdt5rkqHrE
Visualizations of the Kochtopus
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Maze_of_Money.png
https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/d/d6/W-kochnetwork.jpg
Wilks money dump into PragerU and Daily Wire
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33j/fracking-farris-dan-wilks-prageru-climate-crisis-denial-shapiro
Daily Wire/PragerU recent highlights
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wire-host-says-there-cant-be-genocide-trans-people-transgender-people-not-real
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wires-authoritarian-vision-increasing-state-sanctioned-violence-against-oppressed
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wire-host-says-parents-should-have-their-children-taken-away-if-they-bring-them
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/jordan-peterson-i-think-gay-community-was-hell-lot-better-when-they-were-oppressed
https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wire-host-celebrates-new-youtube-policy-allows-him-say-2020-election-was
https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wires-matt-walsh-defends-using-n-word-idea-theres-word-cannot-be-uttered-under-any
NPR story on Daily Wire reach
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/19/1013793067/outrage-as-a-business-model-how-ben-shapiro-is-using-facebook-to-build-an-empire
Stochastic terrorism
https://youtu.be/frZHD6aITcg
Koch support to DeSantis
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/521321-americans-for-prosperity-endorses-ron-desantis-re-election/
DeSantis Daily Wire support
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/ron-desantis-paid-over-100k-ben-shapiros-daily-wire
Koch support to Daily Wire figures
https://prospect.org/justice/care-faux-free-speech-warriors-koch-brothers-paying-bills./
Koch support to Daily Caller
https://readsludge.com/2018/11/21/charles-koch-is-funding-rightwing-pro-trump-media-new-disclosure-reveals/
Daily Caller highlights
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/20/dhs-migrant-caravan-on-border-contains-more-than-500-criminals/
https://groomed.dailycaller.com/optin-595234881685654391231?sl=headerbutton
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/13/outrageous-vicious-trump-slams-sham-indictment-speech/
The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2018/11/the-atlantic-begins-the-speech-wars-reporting-project/576805/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putting-monsterpaint-onjordan-peterson/550859/
Koch Time Investment
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/27/koch-brothers-time-magazine-media-power
LA Times
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/14/los-angeles-times-los-angeles
Stand Together
https://standtogether.org/about-us/
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/453732750/201813199349312776/full
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stand_Together_Chamber_of_Commerce#Grant_Recipients
Campus “free speech” groups
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/dark-money-behind-campus-speech-wars/
Campus research centers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/koch-donors-george-mason.html
Think tanks propped up in all 50 states which got a combined $83 million dollars from Koch-funded orgs and their allies in 2011
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/koch-brothers-think-tank-report-099791
Some notables
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1371541044592996352?lang=en
https://www.climateofdenial.org/track-climate-change-denial/manhattan-institute/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/07/oil-lobby-coal-anti-obama-ads
Pushing Republicans to the far right
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/koch-industries/summary?id=d000000186
Mont Pelerin society
https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-koch/
Lobbying
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/koch-industries/summary?id=d000000186
Anti-muslim & anti-LGBT hate groups
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/01/22/koch-favored-donorstrust-keeps-funding-anti-muslim-anti-lgbtq-hate-groups/
