Media .. Bill Gates paid millions to block Elon Musk’s plans!

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation poured hundreds of millions of dollars into 11 out of 26 organizations to prevent Elon Musk from taking over Twitter, according to Shortc’s data with Breitbart by Freedom Online.

Among the 11 Gates-backed organizations, the reports spearheaded Musk’s takeover of Twitter by lobbying advertisers to boycott the platform, the New Venture Fund, a “dark money” organization that in 2020 received the foundation’s largest one-year commitment in more than one year. of 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 have signed the open letter to support the advertiser’s boycott, and have received about 102 separate cash grants from the Gates Foundation since 2008 totaling $457 million, according to the foundation’s disclosures. private finance. Other signatories, such as Sixteen Thirty Fund, included affiliates of the New Venture Fund.

Five other signatories are funded by the Tides Foundation, another dark financial group heavily backed by Gates Foundation funds: Free Press, Indivisible, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Media Matters, and Black Lives Matter Global Network, while Gates-backed community partners fund the signatories.

Gates and Musk recently feuded publicly, with the Microsoft founder revealing that he still held a $500 million short position against Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, even as Gates invited Musk to participate in his climate philanthropy. The SpaceX founder characteristically took to Twitter to voice his grievances, likening Gates’s photo to an emoji of a “pregnant man” and describing the images as a “bonener killer.”

The software tycoon, who has become an expert on the epidemic, has been a major proponent of censorship during the Covid-19 pandemic, and has insisted that vaccine skeptics should be banned from allowing vaccine skeptics to freely share their ideas on social media platforms.

The 26 organizations signed an open letter last month calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter if Musk makes any efforts to relax the strict speech controls the platform has adopted in the past few years. “Musk’s Twitter takeover will further poison our information system and pose a direct threat to public safety, particularly among the already most vulnerable and marginalized,” she said.

The letter said advertisers who continued to work with the platform risked “associating with a platform that amplifies hate, extremism, misinformation and conspiracy theorists.”

The board of directors approved Musk’s $44 billion bid to buy Twitter earlier this month, but the acquisition was delayed as the billionaire called on Twitter to prove that “fake accounts actually represent less than 5% of users.”

The platform made the claim last month in a quarterly financial report based on a sample audit, but acknowledged that the account had not been independently verified and that the true numbers could be higher.