| > People have to learn to recognize the patterns. Indeed, including the pattern of your ridiculous comment. > In this case, lighthouse reports is an international NGO which receives on the order of ~1MM in income per year (an extremely common pattern for these NGOs), which was directly given to them by (unspecified) government grants and (unnamed) private donors (can see all this in their openly published annual reports). In exchange for the funding (80.38% of which they paid out to themselves as wages/compensation), they put together and release "reports", "studies", etc., that push the messaging the NGO was created to push. The 2025 report is here: https://www.lighthousereports.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06... Grant income was €2,499,181. Compensation for the core team was €1,342,778. There are ~32 people listed as core team, so that works out to about €42,000/person. Salaries & wages (ostensibly for the management) was €291,661. It looks like 3 people and if that's correct, it works out to ~€97,000/person. An additional €208,726 was paid to freelancers on projects, and it looks like they had over 10 different "projects" during the year. Anyone with an iota of common sense can see: nobody is getting rich from this. The vast majority of people doing this type of work don't do it unless they have a non-monetary motivation/interest. > ...they put together and release "reports", "studies", etc., that push the messaging the NGO was created to push. Yes, "studies" like https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/syrias-stole..., which revealed that a major European NGO running children's orphanages was apparently knowingly taking in children who had been kidnapped by Bashar al-Assad in an effort to coerce their parents to cooperate with his regime. But I'm sure you think there's a nefarious intent behind this type of reporting? |