Trust Project Becomes Independent Nonprofit with $2.25M in New Funding
May 30, 2019 (PACIFICA, Calif.) – The Trust Project, a global effort to address misinformation and the crisis of trust in news, announced today that it is spinning off as an independent nonprofit organization with $2.25 million in total gifts from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Facebook and the Democracy Fund. Incubated by Sally Lehrman at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the Trust Project is now poised to expand the use of its Trust Indicators, the first journalism transparency standard that helps people easily assess the authority and integrity of news. The Trust Project will use its new funding …
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