Originally Posted by Konda

The organization behind Kony 2012 ? Invisible Children Inc. ? is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called ?misleading,? ?naive,? and ?dangerous? by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of ?manipulating facts for strategic purposes.? They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau?s standards.

Additionally, IC has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they won?t let their financials be independently audited. That?s not a good thing. In fact, it?s a very bad thing, and should make you immediately pause and reflect on where the money you?re sending them is going.

By IC?s own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone (pdf). The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) ? which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can?t seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they?ve ever known.

http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/