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Public Citizen

think tank and consumer rights advocacy group
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Summary

Public Citizen is a think tank[1]. It draws 621 Wikipedia views per month (think tank category, ranking #57 of 207).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Washington, D.C.[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: nonprofit organization[5]
  • Founder: Ralph Nader[6]
  • Headquarters location: Washington, D.C.[7]
  • Commons category: Public Citizen[8]
  • Inception: 1971[9]
  • Significant event: lawsuit[10]
  • Official website: http://www.citizen.org[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Public Citizen[12]
  • Total revenue: 35,785,176 euro[13]
  • Number of viewers/listeners: 422,907[14]

Why It Matters

Public Citizen is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . EU Transparency Register. Retrieved . transparency-register.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Q139502243. Retrieved . washingtonpost.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . EU Transparency Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_public-citizen_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Public Citizen}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-citizen}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-17}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · NGOgo · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → think tank, nonprofit organization
    Total revenue → {'unit': 'Q4916', 'amount': '+35785176'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/58007|batch #58007]]: eu-transparency-finances"
  2. 12d ago · NGOgo · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 4
    Eu transparency register id → 3306434105344-90
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'fr', 'rw']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/57969|batch #57969]]: New EU-IDs"
  3. 14w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Logo image → Wordmark Public Citizen.svg
    Wikidata description → think tank and consumer rights advocacy group
    Politifact people and groups id → public-citizen
    Bluesky handle → publiccitizen.bsky.social
    + 33 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007346794405171, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783595065105; Based on LC id in the National Library of Israel"
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