Fact-checking the fact-checker: Over 50% of Vera Files funding from CIA-linked orgs

Why don't we fact-check the fact-checker?

How much has Vera Files, PCIJ, Rappler, CMFR received from CIA offshoot?

Just how much funding have Vera Files, PCIJ, Rappler, and CMFR received from the US government-funded CIA offshoot National Endowment for Democracy (NED)?

Here's data from none other than NED itself.

Here's the complete step-by-step guide to uncovering Metro Balita's owner

Two Manila Times columnists – former ambassador Rigoberto “Bobi” Tiglao and Maastricht University lecturer Sass Rogando Sasot – have written about this, but I like having all bases covered, so here we go.