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Exhibit 1080

Our Funding (FactCheck.org, itemized financial disclosure by fiscal year, FY2010-FY2026)

Exhibit 1080 ยท Fact-checker financial disclosure

Our Funding (FactCheck.org, itemized financial disclosure by fiscal year, FY2010-FY2026)

We do not accept funds from corporations with the exception of Meta, which provided funding as part of its initiative to debunk viral deceptions from 2017 to 2025, and Google, which provided a one-time grant to support our COVID-19 coverage in 2020 and, along with YouTube, funded a 2024-2025 grant administered by the International Fact-Checking Network.

Itemizes support each fiscal year. Facebook/Meta payments 'as part of a project to debunk viral deceptions' are listed from FY2017 ($52,283.34) through FY2025 ($258,320): FY2018 $188,881; FY2019 $242,400; FY2020 $323,745; FY2021 $389,925 plus $30,032 (NABJ fellowship program); FY2022 $201,574 plus $69,968; FY2023 $339,279 plus $4,244; FY2024 $162,800. Also lists Google and YouTube funding, including a FY2025 grant of $79,567 administered by the International Fact-Checking Network.

Source
FactCheck.org (Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania)
Date
Page read 10 November 2026; covers fiscal years ending 30 June 2010-2026
Quoted from
'Our Funding', fifth paragraph
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.factcheck.org/our-funding/
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Figures re-read from the page's per-year blocks and re-summed in the note file. The page also says: 'Neither corporation sought nor was given any control over our editorial decisions.'

Cited by

Finding INF-5.9
Primary record FactCheck.org's funding page lists Meta payments of $2,159,207.34 for fiscal years 2017 through 2025 and $104,244 in Meta fellowship grants for fiscal years 2021 through 2023, and states that Meta and Google "neither sought nor was given any control over our editorial decisions." PolitiFact's disclosure page lists Meta and TikTok as organizations that gave more than 5 percent of its revenue in the previous calendar year, without amounts.