U.S. Right to Know

U.S. Right to Know is a nonprofit investigative public health research and journalism group working globally to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health, environment and food system. We work in the public interest to help keep families healthy. We uncover, report on and share documents obtained through public records laws and from whistleblowers, and collaborate with public health academics and journalists around the world. Our investigations into the pesticide and ultra-processed food industries have been reported on worldwide, leading to three New York Times exposés; more than a dozen articles in the BMJ, one of the world’s leading medical journals; and 16 co-authored peer-reviewed public health journal articles. Our team has also reported extensively on the origins of Covid-19 and high-risk virological research. We were recognized in a Lancet Global Health report, which named U.S. Right to Know as an example of public health investigative work that challenges the corporate playbook, alongside Transparency International and Open Secrets. The Freedom of the Press Foundation discussed our work in a report about how corporations try to suppress the disclosure of public records. But the work we do has also put us in corporate crosshairs. The Guardian reported on how Monsanto’s ‘intelligence center’ targeted U.S. Right to Know and revealed the company’s 31-page PR plan to try to discredit our investigation into the pesticide industry. It is commonplace for food, chemical and other corporations to produce so much disinformation and science denial that it is hard to pierce the veil. We believe in the power of investigative reporting that is not for sale to corporations or their advertising, to convey what these industries are really doing to our health.