MEDIA MATTERS ACTION NETWORK

Providing the public, journalists, and policymakers with fact-checking assistance in the nature of public policy research to document the veracity or falsehood of news reporting to rebut false media news claims and information, to allow others to take direct action against offending media institutions; empowering and expanding progressive voices in the media by providing research testing of possible communications about current and emerging public policy issues to assist the large progressive community in creating and disseminating progressive information and views; and engaging in other activities at the confluence of progressive thought, policy, and media, namely, conducting paid issue advertising related to progressive social and political thought on issues of public policy and misinformation about such issues in the media and political campaigns

Providing commentary and information in the field of news reporting of others via the internet and other media not for business purposes; Analyzing, monitoring and providing information on the news reporting activities of the news media through both rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports not for business purposes; providing an on-line computer database in the field of the general news reporting industry; conducting research studies and reports in the field of the general news reporting industry, not for business or financial purposes; and engaging in other activities at the confluence of progressive thought, policy, and media, namely, conducting live and online training, and conferences related to progressive social and political thought on issues of public policy and misinformation about such issues in the media and political campaigns