Many may have seen this popular post here about an article in The Guardian reporting on Bill Gates giving all his money to his own political machine and calling it charity. An important detail that was missed is that Gates' foundation gave The Guardian a $3.5 million grant spread out in allotments from 2020 to 2023.
The outlet doesn't disclose this blatant conflict of interest in the page. For some reason, I expected The Guardian to be better than a public relations front.
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They had to rehabilitate their image somehow. Reminder the Bill Gates was once considered an asshole by pretty much everyone. I'm surprised no one has dropped the relevant Citations Needed eps yet.
Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire (Part I) — Bill Gates and Western Media | by Citations Needed | Medium
Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire (Part II) — Bill Gates in Africa | by Citations Needed | Medium
yeah
gates used to pop up every couple of months for something
and branson and sugar maybe once per month
definitely only started to be a thing since twitter pretty much
It was when the entire international finance community realised that social media news about billionaires drove financial speculation. Once that happened they all became a united group of online shills for the people involved in whatever thing they are investing in.