Since its inception in 1969, Accuracy in Media has demanded accountability where no one else would. The AIM team spent 2023 working to maintain that legacy. Here is a look back on the impact that work has had this year. |
Antisemitism Accountability Project |
This project has exploded into what may be be the most impactful work in the history of Accuracy in Media. We found multiple student organizations at universities across the country blaming Israel for being attacked by terrorists and defending the actions of Hamas. School administrators refused to hold students responsible, so AIM stepped in.
We made the public aware of their antisemitic behavior by displaying the names of leaders of the student organizations on mobile billboards, and purchasing their names as URLs with profiles explaining what they did, and then used Search Engine Optimization experts to make sure those pages came up first when potential employers looked them up.
Since we started holding antisemites accountable, Accuracy in Media has gained more than $100 million in earned media, including the front page of The New York Times. The media coverage of our mobile billboards at Columbia alone was covered CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News in primetime. Our work was also featured at BBC, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Inside Edition, and dozens of local TV stations.
At Harvard, student organizations signed a letter that called Hamas ‘entirely responsible’ for the Hamas attacks. When we showed up with our truck, protesters vandalized its screens with spray paint and threw bricks at it. But since we held them accountable, 10 organizations retracted their signatures from the letter, and individual signers reached out to apologize and resigned from their organizations. And several students had job offers revoked. The president of Harvard announced an antisemitism advisory board to address the problem.
At Columbia, 20 student organizations signed a similar letter blaming Israel. Our billboard was met with hostility there as well. The governor of New York announced a task force to address antisemitism and protect Jews on college campuses.
At UPenn, the ‘Palestine Writes’ festival hosted known antisemites as speakers. AIM sent a billboard demanding the resignation of UPenn President Liz Magill. Since then, Magill has resigned and the governor of Pennsylvania announced a task force to address antisemitism on college campuses in the state.
AIM has also sent billboards and conducted activism at MIT, Yale, George Washington University, and City University of New York, and is continuing to take action on campuses to expose antisemitism wherever it rears its ugly head. |
In pursuit of universal school choice in all 50 states -- in which the money follows the child -- AIM has sent undercover investigators to school districts across the country to find out where administrators and educators are lying to parents and defying state laws.
Since 2021, AIM has investigated public education in 14 states with a combined population of nearly 150 million Americans. We have targeted legislators right when school choice legislation is on the table, sending mobile billboards to display our investigators' findings on loop, and ensure that they and their staffers and local reporters see what they have uncovered. We have released so much footage it would be too much for one AIM Report, but here are some of the highlights:
Our Indiana investigation gained millions of views, was covered on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, and gained significant local media coverage. Two public school administrators were suspended after our videos exposed them lying to parents. And it led to success: Indiana enacted a significant school choice bill.
AIM's five-part investigation in Ohio had a massive response: more than $6 million in earned media and the legislature enacting a massive universal school choice bill.
In Nebraska, our investigators captured a radical superintendent bragging that he would “break the law” if CRT principles were outlawed. We released the footage while school choice legislation was being considered, and the bill was signed into law.
After a Democrat switched parties in North Carolina, Republicans gained a veto-proof majority and began to debate school choice. Accuracy in Media immediately investigated the state, captured outrageous content, and released it at a strategic time -- and it worked! North Carolina became the tenth state to enact universal school choice.
AIM’s investigation into public education in Utah exposed a half-dozen administrators lying to parents and defying state law. Our investigation gained 1M+ views and got the attention of their attorney general, who launched his own investigation based on video we captured. Most importantly, school choice legislation has now been signed into law.
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