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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 00:25:20 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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   @spoon @mediapart it's like this RT segment from some years ago when they "discovered" that OCCRP is largely funded by US government money, by… dramatically scrolling to the website footer. 🤣

   I haven't worked at OCCRP since 2019, so no clue what the funding structure looks today. That said, I know the quality of work done by investigative journalists writing for OCCRP, and I know that quality of work defends itself.

   I do wish more sources of funding were available to investigative journalism.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 00:38:52 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @spoon @mediapart OCCRP was never hiding its funding. You can find all the institutional donors listed here:
     https://www.occrp.org/en/about-us/who-supports-our-work

     You should of course make up your own mind on how you treat their reporting based on that.

     And if you think such funding structure is a problem, donating to your favorite investigative journalism outlet is a fantastic way of doing something about it. 👍

     Investigative journalism is unfortunately very expensive to do well.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 03:21:44 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @spoon yeah, while I was there I was able to stop trackers from infesting the site. Oh well. Can't win them all.

     @mediapart

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     Spoon (spoon@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 03:21:45 JST Spoon

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     @rysiek @mediapart Thank you; that is helpful. I have seen really good work done by OCCRP, too.

     I suppose that can be true, and it can also be true that they should consider becoming more independent, given their mission. Maybe perks for members, rather than just donations, and *removing 3rd party tracking of visitors to the donor page*, would be a way to increase revenue.

     On this, the upcoming Webinar for $25 is a good idea! I'll sign up if I can do it while blocking their trackers.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 19:34:04 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @MarCandea please point to where I said this is not a problem.

     @spoon @mediapart

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     Marcande (café) ☕ (marcandea@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 19:34:05 JST Marcande (café) ☕

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     @rysiek @spoon @mediapart come on...
     Nothing on the website allows to understand that the US government is funding #occrp for more than half of the budget and the US government may block the choice of the OCCRP leaders etc.

     Of course it's a huge problem. Remember Trump is coming, are you kidding?

     And of course it's not easy to solve it, not easy to find how to fund independent investigation.
     It's a huge global and structural issue