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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
   • Who Funds And Controls The Online Right?  

Visualizations of the Kochtopus
https://projects.propublica.org/graph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/d/...

Wilks money dump into PragerU and Daily Wire
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33...

Daily Wire/PragerU recent highlights
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wi...
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wi...
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wi...
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wi...
https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-...
https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-wal...


NPR story on Daily Wire reach
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/19/101379...

Stochastic terrorism
   • American Fascism And The Groomer Panic  

Matt Walsh 7 HB1
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/p...

Koch support to DeSantis
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/...

DeSantis Daily Wire support
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wi...

Koch support to Daily Wire figures
https://prospect.org/justice/care-fau...

Koch support to Daily Caller
https://readsludge.com/2018/11/21/cha...

Daily Caller highlights
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/20/dh...
https://groomed.dailycaller.com/optin...
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/13/ou...

The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-rel...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...

Koch Time Investment
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...

LA Times
https://www.theguardian.com/media/201...

Stand Together
https://standtogether.org/about-us/
https://projects.propublica.org/nonpr...
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...

Campus “free speech” groups
https://www.thenation.com/article/arc...

Campus research centers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us...

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/2013/1...

Some notables
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/sta...
https://www.climateofdenial.org/track...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...

Pushing Republicans to the far right
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/koch...

Mont Pelerin society
https://www.forbes.com/profile/charle...

Lobbying
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/koch...

Anti-muslim & anti-LGBT hate groups
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/01/...