Fact-check: “Donations to Let's Feed The Children are multiplied by 8”
Verdict: Misleading (62% confidence)
Feed the Children (which runs the 'Let's Feed The Children' campaign) does make the 8x claim on its own website, and the figure is based on its ratio of total program value — including large volumes of in-kind corporate donations — to cash donations received. But the 8x figure depends heavily on how those in-kind donations are valued, and CharityWatch has documented that Feed the Children's in-kind valuations are inflated: one $118,000 shipment was found to be worth less than $7,000 to recipien…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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