EXPLAINER: Is there “pink slime” in your local news?

In 2020, DonorsTrust, a libertarian nonprofit, gave Metric Media Foundation $1.27 million “for general operations,” according to the Tow Center. A 2019 analysis of their IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy found that DonorsTrust and a sister organization, Donors Capital Fund, had pumped at least $90 million into “right-wing causes.”