Complex sentence: The goal of the series is to put a face to paid editing, and to bring the discussion forward without assumptions or hyperbole: to look at what is actually going on and to illuminate one of the dark corners of Wikipedia.
Split into simpler sentences: The goal of the article or series would be to put a face on paid editing, and to bring the discussion forward without assumptions or hyperbole, to look at what is actually going on. My motivation is to illuminate one of the dark corners of Wikipedia.