Regardless of the platform for gaining funds, those funds are being used to directly spread mis-information.  Patreon is no one’s “employer” so conflict of interest falls on the individual  This.  This was what i was trying to get at, yet i did a piss poor job explaining it.  I am also curios if their pateron donations are allowed by their employers? does gawker media like it when one of their journalists is giving money to a journalist with a competitor?