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This website is designed to help you research front groups, but also to share your own research with others. Here's how:
- Research. In addition to searching this site, you can also use our advanced search feature to search our companion sites, SourceWatch, PR Watch and Consumer Reports Webwatch.
- Ask a question. Sometimes our written materials don't have the information you're looking for. If you need to ask someone a question, you can contact us via this website, and one of our staff members will do their best to answer.
- Submit a tip. If you notice a group that seems to be "fronty" (see our frequently asked questions for a list of telltale characteristics of front groups), you can also use our contact form to submit a tip.
- Share your findings. FFS works collaboratively with SourceWatch, a wiki-powered website. (It uses the same software that enables collaborative editing as Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia.) Anyone (including you) can edit articles yourself, adding your own discoveries to existing articles or creating new articles. (As an extra safeguard against inappropriate editing, we require users to register before editing SourceWatch, but registration is free an only takes a minute.)
- Publish yourself. Thanks to new media technologies, it's easier than ever before for you to "be the media." Do you want to start your own weblog? Publish photos, video, audio? If you're trying to get started, Sourcewatch maintains a list of tools for citizen journalism, many of which are free and available to anyone with an internet connection.
