MuckRock

[2][dead link‍] The site's beta version went online in May 2010, and was part of the Boston Globe's GlobeLab incubator program.

FOIA Machine was a separate organization hosted by The Center for Investigative Reporting and funded by the Knight Foundation, the Reynolds Institute of Journalism, and a crowdfunding campaign.

[7] MuckRock partially automates the process with an interface designed to make the filing of requests easier.

[13] The Boston Police Department suspended an automatic number plate recognition program because of privacy concerns raised after a MuckRock request.

[18][19] After a great deal of stalling, the CIA eventually capitulated in 2017 and put 25 years of declassified documents online.