This one was posted July 5th, in response to an article titled "How Do We Spot Scammy Lit Mags and Presses?"
Hi. For what it's worth, Paris Review does receive money from venture capital. Per this source-- https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/paris-review-foundation,134081729/-- Paris Review has assets over $11,000,000. Recent donors include the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which was founded in 2006 with donations by multi-billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings, among others. (Let's not forget also that the same publication notoriously was founded in 1950 with monies from the CIA, a fact which came out decades later.) What would a Mark Zuckerberg gain from indirectly funding a literary magazine? Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and a couple others, he's worth $200 billion-with-a-b. Money to burn. These guys are out to control every aspect of society-- see Peter Thiel, patron of J.D. Vance, and HIS involvement with the cultural world c/o Dimes Square and other trendy happenings. Yeah, there are a lot of scamsters in every aspect of America at the moment. But some are small-time grifters, while others are very, very big players.
