And that presents some big challenges, and big opportunities, for what the Mother Jones community has always rallied around: The power of investigative journalism to foster accountability and change. It also seems safe to assume that a small but noisy group of reality-denying, extremist-enabling forces will continue to test, and possibly break, our democracy. But we can predict, with a high degree of confidence, that the months and years ahead will be tough for journalism. None of those things are going to happen at Mother Jones. Or how about reporting things that you know to be false to generate a record profit? Just three months of Fox Corporation’s revenue in 2021 could keep Mother Jones afloat until 2078. Imagine if a billionaire with visions of grandeur sank $44 billion into Mother Jones instead of Twitter: That would be enough to fund us from now through the year 4495 at our current $17-plus million budget. Or if we impersonated a YouTube executive to sing our praises on a Zoom call, and raked in $83 million (but maybe minus being arrested for fraud in the end). This would be so much easier if we could make up donors from whole cloth, like George Santos may have done.
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