The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into 11 of 26 organizations to prevent Elon Musk from taking over Twitter, according to data Shortc shared with Breitbart from Freedom Online.
Of the 11 organizations supported by Gates, reports led Musk to take over Twitter by lobbying advertisers to boycott the platform, the New Venture Fund, a “dark money” organization that took the largest one year foundation commitment to over one year in 2020. .five years.
The group funds the Center for Media Justice, the Media Democracy Fund, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Accountability Technology, all of which signed open letters to support the advertiser boycott and received approximately 102 individual cash grants from at the Gates Foundation. According to foundation statements, a total of $ 457 million since 2008. Other signatories, such as the Sixteen Thirty Fund, include New Venture Fund affiliates.
The other five signatories were funded by the Tides Foundation, another dark finance group fully supported by Gates Foundation funds: Free Press, Indivisible, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Media Matters, and Black Lives Matter Global Network; The community partners supported by the gate are the signatories.
Gates and Musk recently filed a public lawsuit, showing that Musk still has a $ 500 million short position against electric car company Tesla, despite Microsoft founder inviting Gates Musk to join climate philanthropy. The SpaceX founder often takes to Twitter to make his complaints, likening Gates’s image to a “pregnant man” emoji and describing the images as “bone killers”.
The software tycoon, who specializes in the epidemic, became a major proponent of censorship during the Covid-19 pandemic, insisting that vaccine skeptics should be banned from allowing vaccine skeptics to freely share their opinions on social media platforms.
The 26 organizations signed an open letter last month urging advertisers to boycott Twitter if Musk makes any effort to relax the strict speech controls the platform has adopted over the past few years. “Musk’s takeover of Twitter will further poison our information system and pose a direct threat to public safety, especially to the most vulnerable and marginalized,” he said.
Advertisers who continue to work on the platform run the risk of “interacting with a platform that empowers hatred, extremism, misinformation and conspiracy theories,” the letter said.
The board approved Musk’s $ 44 billion bid to buy Twitter earlier this month, but the acquisition was delayed after the billionaire called Twitter to prove that “fake accounts actually represent less than 5% of users. ”
The platform made the claim in a quarterly financial report based on a sample audit last month, but acknowledged that the account has not yet been independently verified and the actual numbers may be higher.
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