Street-level investigative reporting uncovering the funding networks, organized actors, and foreign influence operations behind America's protest industry.
What appears to be grassroots protest is a professionalized, internationally funded operation. These are the entities Nate has identified, documented, and exposed on the ground in New York City.
Nate Friedman uncovered and documented on camera an individual being paid $80,000 to protest against Israel in New York City — confirmed by Bill Ackman and covered nationally.
NYCPaid ProtestOn CameraThe People's Forum, funding protests across NYC, is bankrolled by Neville Roy Singham — a Shanghai-based businessman under Congressional investigation for acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the CCP.
CCPForeign InfluenceFARANate confirmed on the ground that the "Hands Off Venezuela" protest in NYC was a paid operation, funded through The People's Forum — establishing a pattern across multiple causes and narratives.
VenezuelaAstroturfingGround LevelIdentified a woman appearing at 100+ protests across the city — assigned to block journalists. A professionalized suppression role inside the organized protest industry.
Rise & ResistMedia SuppressionThousands of dollars paid to Columbia protesters who set up the encampment — as reported by the New York Post and corroborated by Nate's ground-level investigation.
ColumbiaCampusEncampmentMillions of dollars are being funneled into organized demonstrations. Nate is actively building the complete picture — tracing every dollar, every NGO, every foreign connection. This is the work.
ActiveDevelopingTo Be PublishedKey moments in the investigation — documented, verified, published.
Nate Friedman is a 27-year-old New York City-based investigative journalist who picked up a camera and microphone and hit the streets to expose what legacy media wouldn't touch — the organized, funded, professionally coordinated protest industry operating in plain sight.
His method: listen. Don't confront. Let people speak. And follow every dollar until the full picture emerges.
Millions of dollars. Dozens of organizations. Foreign interference. This investigation is ongoing — and it needs to be funded, followed, and shared.