The Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) is an American nonprofit watchdog organization investigating corporate and government accountability.[1][2][3] Founded in 2008 and based in Buffalo, New York, it operates the volunteer-run online database LittleSis, described by its co-founder "an involuntary Facebook for influential people".[4][5][6] LittleSis, a play on the authoritarian Big Brother from George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, was funded by a grant from the Sunlight Foundation and launched in January 2009.[7][4] By August of that year it included profiles and financial information on over 28,000 individuals and 10,000 organizations.[4]

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  2. ↑ Begos, Kevin (June 16, 2013). "Report faults Heinz Endowments head for gas ties". WTAE. Associated Press.
  3. ↑ Summerson, Mia (March 25, 2017). "Public accountability report takes aim at National Fuel". Niagara Gazette.
  4. 1 2 3 Watson, Stephen T. (August 30, 2009). "LittleSis keeps Big Brother in his place. Web site exposes ties among the powerful". The Buffalo News.
  5. ↑ Estes, Adam Clark (July 13, 2009). "How do health care lobby dollars match influence in Congress?". Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  6. ↑ Jaffe, Sarah (September 1, 2017). "LittleSis is Watching the One Percent". The Baffler.
  7. ↑ Klonick, Kate (March 19, 2009). "Profiles of Power". Columbia Journalism Review.


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