Demo­c­ra­t­ic-tied dark mon­ey net­work Ara­bel­la Advi­sors behind ‘youth’ tech lob­by­ing groups

A pair of “youth-led” projects lob­by­ing for more tech reg­u­la­tions while seem­ing­ly pre­sent­ing them­selves as grass­roots are part of the largest Demo­c­ra­t­ic-tied dark mon­ey net­work in the Unit­ed States, records show.
Design it for Us and the Log Off Move­ment are staffed by col­lege stu­dents and demand­ing the U.S. gov­ern­ment fur­ther reg­u­late social media while slam­ming tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies for pro­mot­ing alleged­ly addic­tive prod­ucts, the Dai­ly Caller report­ed. These same ini­tia­tives are trade names for the North Fund, a lib­er­al non­prof­it group man­aged by the dark mon­ey behe­moth con­sul­tan­cy Ara­bel­la Advi­sors, accord­ing to cor­po­rate Wash­ing­ton, D.C., records.
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News of the finan­cial rela­tion­ships come as Ara­bel­la Advi­sors, whose net­work includes enti­ties that spon­sor projects not required to file tax forms with the IRS, faces increas­ing pres­sure from watch­dogs and Repub­li­can law­mak­ers over its dark mon­ey oper­a­tions. Ara­bel­la’s expan­sive net­work raked in over $1.5 bil­lion in 2021 from secret donors, doc­u­ments show.
Amer­i­cans for Pub­lic Trust, an orga­ni­za­tion with ties to right-lean­ing bil­lion­aire activist Leonard Leo’s con­sult­ing firm CRC Advi­sors, accused Ara­bel­la in an August IRS comp …