The school claims this is not about politics which seems… laughable.
The College Fix reports:
Arizona State U. shells out $125,000 to anti-Trump news siteArizona State University is a regular financial contributor to a news site that is heavily anti-Trump and biased against the pro-life point of view.The taxpayer-funded university has paid The Conversation at least $125,000 in membership fees according to records obtained by The College Fix via a public records request. The university gave the website $40,000 in both 2023 and 2024 and another $45,000 in 2025. This is the normal membership fee, as previously determined by The Fix.The Conversation, which promises “academic rigor” with “journalistic flair,” has a history of imbalanced coverage. Prior research from The Fix found about half of the website’s coverage of President Trump is negative with little to no positive stories.Nearly all the publication’s stories about abortion are from a pro-choice point of view, as The Fix previously reported. The decade-old publication receives around $2 million per year from public universities and other fees from private colleges and other supporters.The payments ensure articles authored by Arizona State professors are published. Among these include stories about “white nationalism” and why “white people” are “bother[ed]” by Mexican flags flying at immigration protests.Still, the university says the partnership is not about advancing political ideology.“Additionally, and to clarify, support for The Conversation is limited to enabling ASU scholars to share peer-reviewed, evidence-based research in an editorially independent forum, not to advance any political ideology,” the university told The Fix when it provided the documents.
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