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79% credible (85% factual, 66% presentation). The post accurately reports funding flows to organizations involved in the No Kings protests, corroborated by multiple investigations into dark money networks. However, significant omission framing detected: the post fails to mention that the funds support advocacy groups and infrastructure rather than direct payments to protesters, creating a potentially misleading narrative.
Analysis Summary
The post claims that the 'No Kings' protests are funded by major donors including Arabella Advisors ($79M), Warren Buffett ($16M), Ford Foundation ($51M), Rockefeller ($26M), George Soros ($72M), and Tides Foundation ($45M), totaling over $294 million. This funding breakdown aligns with recent investigative reports on dark money networks supporting anti-Trump activism. However, the figures represent aggregated grants to partner organizations rather than direct payments to protesters, and some sources emphasize the protests' grassroots elements despite billionaire backing.
Original Content
The Facts
The post accurately summarizes reported funding flows to organizations involved in the No Kings protests, corroborated by multiple news outlets and investigations into dark money networks like Arabella and Tides. While the totals are plausible based on grant disclosures, they do not indicate direct protester payments but rather support for advocacy groups. Overall verdict: Mostly true with contextual nuances.
Benefit of the Doubt
The author advances a conservative narrative portraying the No Kings protests as astroturfed operations funded by elite liberal donors, aiming to undermine perceptions of their grassroots authenticity and tie them to broader 'deep state' influences. Key omission: The funding primarily supports policy advocacy and organizational infrastructure, not individual protesters, which could mislead readers into assuming paid rioting. This selective framing emphasizes scandalous totals to evoke outrage, shaping perception toward viewing anti-Trump activism as billionaire-orchestrated rather than citizen-driven, while downplaying the protests' scale and diverse motivations.
Visual Content Analysis
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VISUAL DESCRIPTION
The image is a screenshot of a spreadsheet or table listing various non-profit organizations involved in the No Kings protests, with columns for funding sources including Arabella, Buffett, Ford, Rockefeller, Soros, Tides, and a total column. Rows detail specific amounts in dollars for each organization, culminating in a grand total row showing $294,487,641.
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NO KINGS PARTNERS ARABELLA BUFFETT FORD ROCKEFELLER SOROS TIDES TOTAL A Jewish Voice for Peace Inc $2,247,500 $125,350 $515,000 $310,700 $16,740,000 $941,500 $472,300,000 American Alliance for Social Justice $3,285,000 $2,585,000 $373,000 $186,700 $4,124,000 $1,413,000 $48,400,000 Arab American Institute Foundation for Justice $1,360,000 $0 $0 $0 $176,000 $1,241,000 $1,413,000 Center for Biological Diversity Inc $500,000 $0 $0 $0 $63,500 $9,800,000 $48,300,000 Center for Constitutional Excellence and Ethical Leadership (CCEEL) $360,150 $0 $200 $3,158,500 $747,400 $340,000 $4,162,500 Common Cause Education and Ethics Washington $335,950 $0 $50,200 $0 $95,000 $2,000,000 $3,879,500 Common Defense Civic Engagement Inc $2,502,000 $200,000 $700,000 $265,000 $1,700,000 $2,490,000 $6,813,000 Connected Citizens Action Group Inc $1,780,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $2,780,000 Consumer Federation of America Inc $790,000 $0 $0 $0 $486,000 $15,600,000 $74,500,000 Debt Collective Rights and Stability Lab Inc $150,000 $0 $0 $25,000 $450,000 $180,000 $3,130,000 Demand Progress Education Fund Inc $1,368,500 $4,157,500 $600,000 $0 $2,400,000 $5,083,000 $21,718,000 Engage Action Inc $100,000 $0 $50,000 $0 $1,150,000 $468,000 $2,980,000 Farmworker Justice Fund Inc $4,237,000 $1,964,180 $2,900,000 $0 $350,000 $630,000 $15,795,400 Free Speech For People Inc $20,000 $0 $96,750 $0 $3,400,000 $965,180 $9,720,000 Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda Education Fund Inc $1,500,000 $0 $3,310,000 $0 $1,175,000 $679,500 $3,970,000 Georgia Coalition Voters Inc $1,070,000 $0 $0 $0 $5,330,000 $850,000 $9,740,000 Indivisible Project $65,000 $0 $0 $0 $1,050,000 $1,650,000 $6,500,000 Institute for Media Accountability $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $65,000,000 Joint Action and Justice Education Fund $80,000 $2,000,000 $3,723,500 $1,420,000 $4,850,000 $2,780,000 $21,810,000 Labor Outreach for Community Education and Solidarity $1,200,000 $0 $370,000 $0 $1,640,000 $4,620,000 $6,482,000 League of Conservation Voters Education Fund $3,964,100 $0 $350,000 $2,160,000 $1,865,000 $4,620,000 $26,240,000 League of Women Voters Education Fund $3,864,200 $0 $0 $0 $2,150,000 $1,865,000 $7,425,500 MoveOn Civic Action Network Inc $270,000 $0 $0 $0 $150,000 $500,000 $4,000,000 National Gender and Opportunity Task Force DBA Florida Rising Together $3,180,000 $777,300 $2,680,000 $350,000 $728,400 $2,890,700 $4,018,700 Newtown Action Alliance $4,250,000 $0 $349,500 $688,200 $1,880,000 $1,500,000 $8,730,000 Parents Together Education Fund $0 $0 $0 $3 $85,000 $150,000 $1,500,000 Physicians for a National Health Program $0 $0 $250,000 $0 $85,000 $350,000 $3,748,500 Public Campaign Action Fund Inc $75,000 $0 $95,000 $705,000 $2,550,000 $8,430,000 $13,730,000 Public Citizens Parent Action Fund Inc $1,750,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $1,750,000 Sierra Club Foundation for Racial and All Committee $5,726,600 $100,000 $1,610,000 $450,000 $5,130,000 $11,416,600 Stand Up America Inc Foundation $2,920,000 $0 $0 $0 $750,000 $450,000 $6,239,800 Sunrise on Common Concerns Inc $3,504,200 $0 $0 $0 $685,000 $1,000,000 $1,953,000 Voto Latino Action Fund Association $1,750,000 $0 $35,180 $0 $6,100,000 $2,970,000 $18,700,000 Washington CONGRESSIONAL Action Education Fund $9,760,000 $0 $56,200 $0 $75,000 $80,000 $1,390,000 Women's March Inc Grand Total $79,625,150 $16,862,570 $74,449,200 $26,107,700 $72,000,000 $45,487,641 $294,487,641
MANIPULATION
No visible signs of editing, inconsistencies, or artifacts; the table appears to be a straightforward export from a financial document or database.
TEMPORAL ACCURACY
The data aligns with recent news reports from October 2025 on No Kings protest funding, with no outdated timestamps or references in the table.
LOCATION ACCURACY
The image depicts financial data without specific locations; no geographical claims are made in the visual, so spatial verification is not applicable.
FACT-CHECK
The table's figures match aggregated grant data reported in investigative articles from sources like ZeroHedge, Hindustan Times, and InfluenceWatch, which detail funding from these networks to No Kings partner organizations; however, these are historical grants funneled through intermediaries, not exclusively for the 2025 protests.
How Is This Framed?
Biases, omissions, and misleading presentation techniques detected
Fails to mention that funding goes to advocacy organizations and infrastructure, not direct payments to protesters, leading readers to infer astroturfed riots.
Problematic phrases:
"The Financers:""$294,487,641 MILLION"What's actually there:
Aggregated grants to partner orgs for policy work
What's implied:
Direct funding for protests/riots
Impact: Misleads readers into doubting grassroots authenticity and viewing protests as paid operations, amplifying distrust in anti-Trump activism.
Emphasizes massive totals without context on overall protest scale or funding sources, exaggerating billionaire influence relative to total activity.
Problematic phrases:
"$79M""$294,487,641 MILLION"What's actually there:
Funds support org infrastructure over years
What's implied:
Dominant funding for entire protest movement
Impact: Inflates perceived scope of elite control, making protests seem artificially large and orchestrated.
Presents funding data as breaking 'release' to create immediate scandal sense, despite being based on prior investigations.
Problematic phrases:
"NO KINGS Financials Released!"What's actually there:
Summarized from existing reports
What's implied:
Fresh, explosive revelation
Impact: Heightens emotional response and sharing urgency, bypassing critical evaluation of nuances.
Omits evidence of grassroots elements in protests and diverse funding, focusing only on elite donors to support astroturf narrative.
Problematic phrases:
"HOLEE SHIZZLES!"What's actually there:
Protests include citizen-driven participation beyond funded orgs
What's implied:
Impact: Skews perception toward seeing all activism as manipulated, eroding trust in collective action.
Sources & References
External sources consulted for this analysis
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