Muckrock and Motherboard launch $2,000 Thiel Fellowship to FOIA the crap out of Peter Thiel / Boing Boing
▻http://boingboing.net/2016/09/16/muckrock-and-motherboard-launc.html
Muckrock today announced a $1,000 grant for projects to increase public understanding of noted Donald Trump supporter and anti-Gawker-lawsuit-funder Peter Thiel. Motherboard matched the Muckrock reporting grant funds, and now the grant is $2,000.
Apply to MuckRock’s Thiel Fellowship
▻https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/sep/16/apply-thiel-fellowship
Apply to MuckRock’s Thiel Fellowship
One Year. $2,000*. Some requests just can’t wait.
Written by Michael Morisy
Edited by JPat Brown
Peter Thiel - co-founder of both PayPal and Palantir and an early Facebook investor - has profoundly reshaped industry after industry and, ultimately, remade the world to fit his radical vision of the future. Unfortunately, despite his impact in industries ranging from digital payments and mass government surveillance to radical life extension and seasteading, the media has done relatively little reporting on the details of his companies, often leaving the public in the dark on his contributions to society.
But maybe you can change that.
With MuckRock’s Thiel Fellowship, we want to help journalists and researchers better understand this pivotal figure’s work and share what they learn with the world.