Viewpoint: Follow the money: How Bloomberg Philanthropies and the NGO Lighthouse Reports manufactured a Big Food safety scandal David Zaruk | August 31, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/08/31/viewpoint-heres-how-bloomberg-philanthropies-funded-lighthouse-reports-cynically-twisted-the-data-to-prove-big-food-is-trying-to-block-safety-measures/ What happens when you want to run a campaign, but you have very limited data and evidence? One strategy more increasingly used is to hire an activist NGO like Lighthouse Reports to fabricate an investigation they can funnel through their tried and tested noise machine. What happens if the budget has been cleared but there is no story? No problem. Lighthouse Reports has experienced spinmeisters capable of communicating insignificant research like it was a groundbreaking exposé. Just pay the Dutch NGO enough and they’ll deliver?