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Alex Kotch

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  • Investigative Journalist, Freelance
  • AI Content Evaluation Specialist, Mercor
New York
As seen in: Medium, MSN, The Guardian, Yahoo News, Newsweek, Substack, VICE, International Business Times (U.S.), Salon, The Irish Times and
Covers:  Money in politics, philanthropy, extremism, hate
Co-founder and executive director of the OptOut Media Foundation (@optoutnews). Investigative reporter, musician, NC native. Woodworker: alsfinewoodworks.com

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I'm an investigative journalist, and my specialty is following the money. I’m currently an investigative reporter at The Center for Media and Democracy, where I track right-wing funding networks. Previously, I was a senior investigative reporter and editor at Sludge, a money-in-politics news site that I helped launch, and part of the investigative unit at International Business Times, where we won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business award for our coverage of the …

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The Big Money Behind Chris Rufo’s Right-Wing Agitating

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By Walker Bragman, Alex Kotch
| exposedbycmd.org
This piece was produced in partnership with Important Context. Chris Rufo has been racking up wins lately. Fresh off of tanking the tenure of Harvard’s first Black—and first Black woman—president, Claudine Gay, with a scandal over alleged plagiarism, the far-right activist has set his sights on National Public Radio. Last month, Rufo dug up tweets from NPR CEO Katherine Maher that she posted before she was a journalist.
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By David Armiak, Alex Kotch, Arn Pearson, Mary Bottari
| Common Dreams
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America’s Biggest Charities Bankrolled RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Outfit

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By Walker Bragman, Alex Kotch
| Reader Supported News
Children’s Health Defense and other groups promoting vaccine misinformation discreetly raked in money from anonymous donors through some of the largest charities in the country In April 2020, as the first wave of the deadly coronavirus pandemic was breaking across the U.S., the largest charitable fund in the country, Fidelity Charitable, announced a plan to help mitigate the crisis.
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