David Becker's NGO received $70 million.
Posted by Badlands Media, Checked
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
The claim's referent is clear: Becker founded and directs CEIR, and the post says 'his' NGO received $70 million. Sources conflict on the amount: a Mullin letter reported by several outlets says CEIR received 'over $70 million' from the Chan Zuckerberg foundation, while CEIR's own account and a PolitiFact piece cite nearly or about $65 million.
Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.
This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.
What was said
… It's being done by NGOS, which are worse than the federal government because there's zero accountability. There's zero oversight to those NGOs. His was one of the NGOs, $70 million Still is. Still is. And so where's where's your disdain for any, you know, for, for President Trump's attempts to, you know, invoke security, right, instill security in our elections. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. PolitiFact reports that Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan gave $65 million to CEIR in 2020, below the claimed $70 million.[1]
Supports. A Mullin letter, as reported by Daily Signal, AlphaNews and Justthenews, says CEIR 'received over $70 million' from the Chan Zuckerberg 501(c)(3) organization before the 2020 election.[2][4][5]
Supports. Washington Examiner reports that CEIR used nearly $70 million from Zuckerberg to run its 2020 election work, and Becker is identified as its founder.[3]
Context. CEIR says Chan and Zuckerberg provided nearly $65 million, so the record places the total between roughly $65 million and just over $70 million depending on the source and measure.[1][4]
Context. The claim's 'still is' is a present-tense framing; the sources describe 2020 funding and do not separately document a later total as of 2026-09-16. The congressional letter is an allegation from a government official, not a fact-check dismissal.[4][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 not rated, 2 rated low
- 1In Georgia race, election denier distorts Brad ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2Mullin Asks Blanche to Probe Election Group's Access ...dailysignal.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Exposing Maryland's partisan, Zuckerberg-funded 2020 turnout ...washingtonexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Mullin asks Blanche to probe election group's access to driver recordsalphanews.org · rated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited for: supports, context
- 5Homeland asks DOJ to probe transfer of private state voter data to Zuckerberg-tied nonprofitjustthenews.com · rated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited for: supports, context
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