Why does nobody talk about how easy it is to get a speaker uninvited by just pointing out their paid ties to a political group

I got a controversial guest speaker banned from my community college in Phoenix back in 2019 after I found a 5 year old financial disclosure showing his 'independent' nonprofit was actually funded by a SuperPAC, and I just emailed the Dean with the link has anyone else used public records to shut down these campus events.

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wood.john1mo ago

Bro I had a buddy at ASU who did almost the exact same thing. He found some old IRS filings showing this "civic engagement" speaker was getting paid by a dark money group through like three shell orgs. He sent the whole paper trail to the student activities board and they cancelled the event like two days later. What got me is how quiet everyone went about it after. The speaker's team sent out this real angry press release saying it was a "smear campaign" but nobody in the local news picked it up because my buddy just shared a public document. That's the thing with these campus events, people act like you're doxxing someone when you're just reading what they filed with the government. I think it's wild more students don't dig into this stuff. A lot of these "nonpartisan" guest spots are just PR stunts for political orgs hiding behind tax exempt filings.

miles2771mo ago

A buddy of mine found similar filings at UT Austin once.