The fund-raising organization made misleading claims about our coverage of an investigation into the group.
A recent post by ActBlue made misleading claims about The New York Times’s coverage of internal disputes at the Democratic fund-raising organization.
The job of news organizations is to report and confirm facts and make the public aware of what is newsworthy, as we did with this coverage.
We reported that a prominent law firm hired by ActBlue concluded that the fund-raising organization had given a potentially misleading response to congressional Republican investigators about how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally coming from foreign citizens.
We’re confident in the accuracy of our reporting, which is based on internal legal memos, emails, resignation letters, Slack messages and interviews with current and former ActBlue employees. We reached out to ActBlue about our reporting before publication and included the organization’s response.
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