21 Facts About PragerU

PragerU is an American advocacy group that creates videos promoting a conservative viewpoint on various political, economic, and sociological topics.

PragerU is frequently criticised for presenting misleading and factually incorrect content in its videos.

PragerU was founded in 2009 by conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager and radio producer and screenwriter Allen Estrin, in order to advocate for conservative views and to offset what Prager regards as the undermining of college education by the left.

PragerU is based in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, and it had around 50 employees as of January 2020.

PragerU encourages students to join "PragerFORCE", an international student organisation to promote PragerU's videos and ideology, about 6,500 college and high school students promoted its videos as of 2020.

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PragerU's school-age targeted content was later branded as PragerU Kids.

In October 2016, PragerU claimed that YouTube had put 21 of PragerU's videos in the "restricted mode" setting, which ensures content is age appropriate.

In October 2017, PragerU filed a federal lawsuit against YouTube's parent company, Google, claiming that 37 of its videos were unfairly demonetized or flagged so that they could only be viewed with "restricted mode filtering", which limits views based on viewer characteristics such as age.

PragerU claimed that Google's demonetization and flagging violated the First Amendment by arguing that YouTube was a public forum.

In March 2018, US District Judge Lucy Koh dismissed the case, ruling that because Google was a private company, PragerU had failed to show that Google had infringed its free speech rights.

PragerU consistently spends more on Facebook advertising than major political campaigns and national advocacy groups.

In 2020, PragerU received $704,057 in COVID-19 relief loans from the Paycheck Protection Program; this debt was later forgiven in full.

PragerU provides an extensive range of donation methods including donations of cryptocurrency, stocks, the incorporation of PragerU into a will, and direct transfers from an individual retirement account.

PragerU guests cover a range from the secular right, the far-right, and the theocratic right.

PragerU videos promote the Electoral College, arguing that it thwarts voter fraud and that "pure democracies do not work".

PragerU has ranked highly in influence compared to other free-market advocacy organizations, such as Reason and National Review.

PragerU found that PragerU relies on search engine optimization and "suggested content" to market its videos.

Tripodi argued that PragerU allows viewers to dabble in content that "makes connections to" the alt-right's talking points.

PragerU demonstrated an algorithmic connection on YouTube between PragerU, Fox News, and alt-right personalities.

Mother Jones said PragerU videos assert that there is no gender pay gap, and that there is not discrimination in policing of African-Americans.

Historian Paul Gottfried, who has written extensively on the subject of fascism, harshly criticized a PragerU video hosted by Dinesh D'Souza which stated that fascism was a left-wing ideology.