Source Passports

Who is behind this organisation?

A Source Passport is the permanent record of an organisation that shapes public information: who owns it, who pays for it and where it publishes. Every fact carries a status, every section lists its sources, and every change is kept in a public history.

Why this register exists, and who keeps it

Nobody can tell, quickly and reliably, who is behind the organisations that shape public information: media outlets, political parties, regulators, agencies, platforms. The facts exist, but they sit in company registers, licence files and press archives, in different languages and formats, and they go stale.

All passports

The first passports are being checked.

Each passport is published once our researchers have checked it.

How to read a passport

Six sections, each answering one question, for every kind of organisation. For news media, the first three cover what the European Media Freedom Act (Article 6) asks them to disclose.

01 Who is it? Origin
02 Who stands behind it? Control
03 Who pays? Money
04 Where does it appear? Channels
05 How does it travel? Distribution
06 Who is connected? Networks

Transparency levels

The level says how much of the key information about an organisation is on record. It is not a mark of quality: it measures what can be known.

Open: Every key disclosure for this kind of organisation is on record.
Partial: At least half of the key disclosures are on record.
Limited: Only some key disclosures are on record.
Not yet disclosed: None of the key disclosures is on record yet: nothing published by the organisation, nothing found in public sources so far.

What the labels mean

Verified: Checked by our researchers against the source listed.
Self-declared: Stated by the organisation itself and not independently checked.
Pending check: Collected from a public source, waiting for a researcher to check it.
Disputed: Contested by the organisation or contradicted by another source.
Not disclosed: No public information found yet.
On request: On file in the research layer; shown to approved requesters (free for journalists, researchers and public bodies).

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Who is behind this?

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Run one of these organisations?

Find it above and choose "Claim this passport" on its page. Claiming is free: you confirm your details, add what is missing, and get a live disclosure box and badge for your website.

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