The Knight Foundation: A $100M Censorship Behemoth That Partnered With USAID

SUMMARY The Knight Foundation is one of the most well resourced philanthropic organizations in the United States, with $2.6 billion in assets as of 2023. The Foundation is tied to the foreign policy blob — in the 2010s it entered a public-private partnership with USAID to facilitate influence operations abroad. After the 2016 election, it…