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Wow, amazing---my book is finally out!!!
We are long overdue to have an open, honest debate about the Gates Foundation. Let's show the world--and the marketplace--that there is a real appetite for critical reporting on the 'good billionaires!'
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“It’s our job to be unpopular. It’s our job to stand alone and say what we really think—-not as activists, but as writers”
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1/ Months ago, I was asked to be a co-reporter on this story. I declined b/c the
#GatesFoundation
was a funder, which I knew would make it impossible to rigorously examine Gates's role in Covax. This story is a case study in the perils of Gates-funded journalism. 🧵Read on & RT:
Brilliant analysis of why global distribution of
#COVID19
#vaccines
has completely failed. The COVAX structure, set up by
@WHO
@gatesfoundation
@CEPIvaccines
blew it. "How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world / The Bureau"
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How did Bill Gates come to secure so much political influence over public health in India? By playing politics, of course. Watch Gates gamely genuflect to Prime Minister Modi in what is, essentially, a political campaign ad.
"Philanthropy" by Bill Gates
Looks like Bill Gates has taken over the baton from Akshay Kumar for Elections 2024 !! The man knows how to capture audience imaginations, from Big, Modi ji is going Bigger with Bill Gates that now the World will listen to this interview ..
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BIG NEWS: I'm writing a book about
#BillGates
& the
#GatesFoundation
.
#TheGoodBillionaire
My book takes on one of the most powerful & secretive people/institutions in the world. And I need your help to write it: documents, intel, stories, sources, whistleblowers. Please RT!
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When
#BillGates
opposes
#PatentWaivers
on
#COVID
vaccines, it’s not just ideological. The
#GatesFoundation
co-owns a vaccine company—-and maybe a vast trove of intellectual property. My newest in
@thenation
dives deep into
#MicrosoftMan
’s
#FirstLove
#IP
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Must-read investigation: GatesFoundation put 3 billion rupees into Indian education, pushing initiatives that 1) don't work 2) demoralize & roboticize teachers 3) drive student segregation.
#FamiliarFailures
So amazing to see news rooms holding Gates accountable!
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Big news to share—my book is available for pre-order
“The Bill Gates Problem” investigates one the world’s most powerful, least scrutinized political actors.
Please retweet & please pre-order!
(ebook/audio/hardback
@Henryholt
)
🧵 1/
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15/ I wrote about the damaging effects of Gates's funding of journalism in
@CJR
last year. If you start to follow the money, you realize Gates's financial influence is everywhere---NYT, Guardian, BBC, AlJazeera...
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Because Gates is not an elected representative or public official, the details of his far-reaching influence over the
#pandemic
—and his financial investments—have largely eluded public scrutiny. My newest investigation in
@thenation
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Before engaging with
#BillGates
’s big ideas on
#climatechange
, we should first ask: Why is this guy talking? In his new book, Gates's blindspots on race, equity, justice & *democracy* are stunning. So are his conflicts of interest and carbon emissions.
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The GatesFoundation aims to help the global poor, but 88% of its charitable dollars go to the wealthiest, whitest nations. In
@thenation
, I talk to those who want to “de-colonize” the world’s most powerful charity & those who want to dismantle it. Read on:
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How one billionaire in Seattle sought to change the staple food of 813 million Indians.
Newest in series from
@anumayhem
further explains how
@gatesfoundation
's political meddling verges on regulatory/policy capture In India.
#TheBillGatesProblem
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In the marketplace of ideas, can money buy
#monopoly
power? Scholars say the
#GatesFoundation
’s virtual blank check to UW’s
#IHME
has made it too big to peer review—even in
@thelancet
. My newest investigation puts a money & power lens on science:
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Two decades ago, Bill Gates was among the most reviled people on Earth, despised as a bully & monopolist. Through philanthropy he completely reformed his reputation.
His reputation has changed. But Bill Gates hasn't.
I explain in my new book:
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Alternative title for this (great!) new academic article:
"How the
@gatesfoundation
&
@McKinsey
undermine democratic decision-making in global health, effectively 'disempowering' the poor nations the Gates Foundation claims to serve"
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Bill Gates actually just said the only way to solve malnutrition is through his own philanthropic efforts.
The hubris is stunning
#WATCH
| "I'm lucky that Microsoft was so successful that it generated gigantic wealth, and I was able to find things like vaccines or malaria or malnutrition that would not be solved without philanthropy,..." says
#Microsoft
co-founder
@BillGates
on being asked why he is giving…
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20/ If you want a different perspective on Gates's role in the global effort to deliver vaccines to the global poor, from someone who will never take funding from the Gates Foundation, please read my articles in
@thenation
:
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My investigations into
@gatesfoundation
compelled
@nytimes
to belatedly disclose *six* financial conflicts in its reporting. Let's dive deep into journalism's Bill-Gates problem in this webinar w/ Association of Health Care Journalists, Friday 1pm!
@ACHJ
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Bill and Melinda Gates are not the magazine-cover power couple we’ve been led to believe, one more crack in the deep mythology that is the Gates Foundation. Call it a business or a bank or a political organization before you call it a charity
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Removed from paywall! The GatesFoundation website is inundated with images of the global poor and rhetoric about diversity/equity. Yet 88% of its charitable dollars go to the whitest, wealthiest nations. Helping the rich, or helping the poor? Plz read/RT!
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18/ An oft-quoted criticism raised around philanthropy is whether it is doing more harm than good. Gates's money is clearly causing great harm in journalism because it's distorting what we know about the pandemic & how we think about the next one. It's revising history.
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Amazing to see
@Nature
publish such a great review of my book: "Schwab’s excellent exposé of hyper-billionaire ‘myths’ could yet help to catalyse political murmurations towards more collective ends."
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"Bill Gates has continually downplayed the role of proven, safe renewable energy technology in decarbonizing our economy, playing up instead more dangerous and risky technology like geoengineering and nuclear"--
@MichaelEMann
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4/ The article doesn't mention Gates until the 83rd paragraph. And it only reports 4 graphs on Gates---incl a quote from Gates. Again, this is a story about a failed covid initiative that Gates played an outsize role in leading/shaping. Why would
@TBIJ
bury Gates's role?
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Hey,
@NPR
. You just put out an 8-min interview w/
#BillGates
promoting his new book on
#climatechange
. I didn't hear any tough questions. And I didn't didn't hear NPR disclose the millions of dollars it takes from
the
#GatesFoundation
. What gives?
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Bill Gates has avoided billions of dollars in taxes through charity. These are tax dollars that could help battle
#CoronavirusOutbreak
. Is Gates recent, modest $100m donation to corona deserving of thanks and exaltation, or critical reflection? Read on:
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3/ The
@TBIJ
story offers useful reporting about the failures in Covax---unaccountable power, missing risk analysis, country-club mindset. This is all true---yet also deeply misleading when placed in a context where Gates's very important role in these failures is obscured
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fwiw, Bill Gates is very aggressively hoarding wealth. He's worth $130b today, and his wealth has dramatically increased during his tenure as, supposedly, the most generous philanthropist on Earth.
Philanthropy today lets ultra-wealthy donors look generous while hoarding wealth — and avoiding solving our root problems.
📆 This Wednesday, join
@TimothyWSchwab
,
@AmyTheSchill
, and
@bdevaan
of
@inequalityorg
in unpacking how to fix this. Register now:
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6/ The Gates Foundation has given (at least) $1,068,169 to
@TBIJ
"to report regularly and in-depth on global health security issues." That's a huge sum for any newsroom & appears to be more than half of TBIJ's annual budget.
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In recent weeks, the news media has gone from lapdog to bloodhound in its reporting on
#BillGates
, but we're still not getting to the really big questions about Gates's power---and abuses of power. My newest in
@thenation
:
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It's kind of funny. Bill Gates started a philanthropy, which donates millions of dollars to CNN. He then goes on CNN to talk about all the important things he's doing.
How is this journalism?
How is this charity?
Why are our tax dollars subsidizing Gates's self promotion?
What's improving health outcomes in low-income countries? What stands in the way of global development? And will AI be as important as the Internet?
My conversation w/
@BillGates
, from today's show:
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7/
@TBIJ
chose to obscure their financial conflict of interest, hiding at at the very bottom of a 5500-word article (no one reads to the very end)----instead of disclosing inside the article, the first time Gates is mentioned, as is customary in journalism
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Sweeping (& flattering) reintroduction to
#BillGates
.
@IronicProfessor
&
@NathanJRobinson
argue that if we're going to indulge in the cult of personality around Gates, atleast let's be honest: He's not a virtuous philanthropist. He's a dogged monopolist
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11/ Disclosure isn't enough. Journalists cannot honestly report on companies/actors that directly/heavily fund their newsrooms. The Society of Professional Journalists (& common sense) says, journalists should, in the first place, avoid financial conflt of interest
@spj_tweets
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8/ After I contacted
@TBIJ
, they acknowledged their failure to clearly disclose their financial conflict. Whoops. They corrected the disclosure, which now appears at first reference to Gates. Day late, dollar short. That disclosure needed to be there Day 1---not Day 6.
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Not surprised that
@gatesfoundation
didn't respond to
@thewire_in
's major, 3-part investigation showing the foundation's anti-democratic infl in Indian food policy. Gates's refusal to engage with criticism shows it is not accountable. And not legitimate.
#TheBillGatesProblem
How one billionaire in Seattle sought to change the staple food of 813 million Indians.
Newest in series from
@anumayhem
further explains how
@gatesfoundation
's political meddling verges on regulatory/policy capture In India.
#TheBillGatesProblem
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Gates's political advocacy (philanthropy) usually aligns w/ his financial interests. These conflicts of interest are recipe for public distrust, whether its reduced meat consumption or vaccines. Journos compound this prob by letting Gates play expert & ignoring his conflicts
Bill Gates has quietly become the largest farmland owner in America. At the same time, he’s become a leading voice in the push for “synthetic meat.”
Here’s the story of how Bill Gates is waging a war on meat to make millions - and hiding behind “climate change” to do it.
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Love this headline from
@the_hindu
:
"The art of Gatescrashing democracy"
Around the world, a major reappraisal of the Gates Foundation is underway-----amazing to see the news media opening up a public debate about this undemocratic institution
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10/ Unfortunately, the ethical failures are endemic.
@statnews
,
@qz
,
@el_pais
&
@Ojo_Publico
also published the
@TBIJ
story on their websites, pushing it out to their zillions of readers----without disclosing that the GatesFoundation helped fund the story
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16/ In a follow-up story I wrote,
@nytimes
acknowledged its own repeated failures to manage financial conflicts of interest in its reporting on the Gates Foundation. The outlet issued corrections, but whose going to see these belated disclosures? No one.
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There is now widespread agreement that “Covax” has failed in its mission to deliver covid vaccines to the global poor. Here’s me on
@Slate
’s podcast arguing that we have to understand the failures of Covax as also the failures of the
@GatesFoundation
:
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9/ Gates's funding appears to account for virtually all of
@TBIJ
's reporting budget on global health, including the Covax story. The only other listed funders of TBIJ's global health reporting are Gates-funded groups
@ejcnet
and
@VitalStrat
.
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12/ The job of journalists is to hold the powerful to account. This means following the money and challenging the powerful forces behind Covax.
@TBIJ
doesn't get there, and the lack of courage in its reporting is stunning. And demoralizing.
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My newest in
@thenation
! With the
#GatesFoundation
mired in allegations of misconduct, my sources ask: why aren't state & federal investigators taking a close look? Taxpayers heavily subsidize
#BillionairePhilanthropy
, so we all have skin in the game
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"Although [the] website keeps track of how much money was raised, it is nearly impossible to tell exactly where all of it went." Anyone who has seriously investigated the Gates Foundation arrives at the same conclsion: you can only follow the money so far
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Over the last year, I published 20,000 words about the
#GatesFoundation
in
@thenation
,
@cjr
&
@bmj_latest
. It's some of the only investigative journalism ever written about the world's most powerful charity. Stay tuned and read on....LINKS here:
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19/ If we really want to understand the failures of the pandemic response, and think about a better way forward, we need to think very hard about the Gates Foundation's failed leadership.
@TBIJ
's reporting makes it hard to do that. It encourages us to do the very opposite
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#FunFact
:
@thenation
nominated my series on the
#GatesFoundation
for the
@PulitzerPrizes
. I didn’t win but I still want to give a shout-out to my editors, sources & readers who helped me put a critical lens on
#BillGates
at a time when most newsrooms were profiling his good deeds
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17/ The
@TBIJ
episode is really painful for me because, as a lowly freelancer, being part of a large, collaborative reporting project like this would have been a a big break & really important opportunity for my career. I can't imagine how much money went into this investigation
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Throughout my book, I argue Gates's funding is often causing more harm than good. No where is this perhaps more apparent than Gates's funding journalism.
My solution? Journalists should stop taking Gates's money. Right now.
Ch. 8 of my book goes deep:
My investigations into
@gatesfoundation
compelled
@nytimes
to belatedly disclose *six* financial conflicts in its reporting. Let's dive deep into journalism's Bill-Gates problem in this webinar w/ Association of Health Care Journalists, Friday 1pm!
@ACHJ
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Melinda French Gates isn't simply (or nobly) trying to expand representation in Congress. She's using her vast wealth to decide WHICH women get the opportunity to run---those that "represent my values." This is private power, not public good
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.
@CitationsPod
@WideAsleepNima
@adamjohnsonNYC
Are you seeing this?
@thenation
just published my 5000-word investigation into the Gates Foundation's finances--and financial conflicts of interest?
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Gates uses his wealth & influence to meet directly with the world’s most powerful elected leaders, securing billions of taxpayer dollars—*our money*—to subsidize his narrow & often wrong-headed solutions to social problems 8/
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Thank you, BillGates, for reading my book,
#TheBillGatesProblem
! His (non)response in
@DailyMailUK
? He says he is "committed" to solving problems.
1) These aren't your probs to solve 2) your solutions create probs 3) please put down that child, Melinda
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The
@Gatesfoundation
now pouring money into investigative journalism in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa. I guarantee that no recipients will investigate the Gates Foundation
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After I emailed & tweeted
@NPR
---and hundreds of Twitter peeps liked/RTed (thank you!)----NPR has issued a correction, belatedly disclosing its financial ties to the
#GatesFoundation
.
Small victory for transparency....but the underlying financial conflict remains unresolved
Hey,
@NPR
. You just put out an 8-min interview w/
#BillGates
promoting his new book on
#climatechange
. I didn't hear any tough questions. And I didn't didn't hear NPR disclose the millions of dollars it takes from
the
#GatesFoundation
. What gives?
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This is not normal and not right. FOIAed emails from
#AnthonyFauci
show he kept in close contact with
#BillGates
---a billionaire with no medical training---about how to get vaccines to global poor. The project has failed abominably.
#Accountability
#PPP
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It gets so much worse!
The
@gatesfoundation
--a "platinum sponsor" of this corporate nutrition conference--has a $500 million+ invested in food companies like Coca-Cola Femsa, Unilever, PepsiCo, Hormel, Proctor & Gamble.
Conflicts of interest on top of conflicts of interest!
Terrible news.
@PepsiIndia
@CocaColaCo
@Unilever
@KelloggsUS
Sponsor the Annual Conference of Nutrition Society of India . What a shame and conflicts of interest!
@ICMRNIN
@ICMRDELHI
@mygovindia
@TimothyWSchwab
please note Gates Foundation.
@RemaNagarajan
@chetanecostani
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14/ So why would the Gates-funded
@TBIJ
invite me---a reporter who has won journalism awards for putting a critical lens on Gates--- to be a co-reporter? My guess is that they had good intentions, but they didn't fully realize their constitutional limitations.
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Very odd that NYT article on Biden's climate change plan leads with
#BillGates
. The news media's normalization/institutionalization of Gates political power really is stunning. Just b/c Gates calls himself a leader on climate change does not make it true
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Bill & Melinda are worth a combined $144b today. Last year--- Jan 1,2021---they were worth $120b. According to the Washington Post, the takeaway is: these are most generous people in the world
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He who pays the piper calls the tune
Thank you
@BillGates
for sending a copy of your new book. I fully agree that we must act on
#COVID19
’s lessons and innovate so that we can deliver swift, equitable health solutions to prevent the next pandemic.
@gatesfoundation
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The
@Gatesfoundation
puts millions of dollars into
@The74
, which then publishes "exclusive" interviews with Bill Gates, presenting him as an expert/humanitarian.
Is this journalism? Is this charity? Or is this oligarchy--a rich guy co-opting the news?
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An insider told me
@gatesfoundation
staff are widely reading advanced copies of my forthcoming book---which they shouldn't have & didn't pay for.
@BillGates
loves intellectual property, but he won't pay me for mine? The price is $30, bro. Each copy.
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The
@nytimes
gives
@billgates
a platform to play expert on climate change....again? The job of journalism is to challenge illegitimate & unaccountable power, not normalize it.
This is a major failure of journalism & a major threat to climate change
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This article reads like something BillGates's PR team came up with.
@RollingStone
pushes the narrative that Gates was a totally innocent man duped by criminal mastermind
#JeffreyEpstein
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Seriously, at what point do just call this kind of reporting misinformation? Bill Gates is becoming richer over time, not poorer. That fact must be front & center in any news story flogging his "plan" to give away all his wealth
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The
@Telegraph
calls my book an "extraordinary and detailed work of investigative journalism" (thank you!)...but also "doomed to fail" (huh?).
Not disclosed by
@Telegraph
: the newspaper receives millions of dollars from
@gatesfoundation
. Odd omission
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The real story is actually much more complex. Bill Gates is not simply giving away money. He’s buying influence. He uses charity to put his hands on the levers of public policy, shaping how we medicate, educate & feed the world 7/
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If you were so concerned about a global pandemic, why didn't you marshal your $135 billion personal fortune to prepare us?
You are a philanthropist, right? In the business of giving away money, not hoarding it...?
Seven years ago, I gave a TED Talk about how the world wasn’t ready for the next epidemic. A lot has changed since then:
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Check out
@thackerpd
's excellent & damning look at
#GatesFoundation
's former
#globalhealth
lead,
@TachiYamada
. What Paul doesn't mention is how fast & furious the Gates-Pharma revolving door spins. Current head of Gates's
#globalhealth
? Former Novartis/Pfizer exec
@trevormundel
I Never Trusted Bill Gates, Nor Should You via
@DisInfoChron
While leading a Senate investigation, I tracked a corrupt pharmaceutical executive right into the lobby of the much-vaunted Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—Bill Gates did nothing.
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Some of Gates’s claimed beneficiaries have publicly, explicitly asked him to ‘stop helping’ because he is so royally screwing things up 14/
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This
@thewire_in
investigation begs three questions: 1) Should we allow
@gatesfoundation
to push "biofortified" rice on poor Indians? 2) how do we deal w/ the controversy, conflicts of interest & apparent health problems in this techno-solution? 3) Is Gates doing harm or good?
NEW series in Wire. Part 1
What happens when Govt tries to solve malnutrition by giving fortified rice?
"Can we eat it, when birds don't?" Adivasi farmers ask can they trust fortified rice when it lacks all qualities, texture, goodness of whole grains
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I wonder what
@AOC
thinks abt
#BillGates
's new book on
#climatechange
--and his self-appointed role as the world's new climate czar. Thru 250 pages, Gates doesn't mention the terms
#environmentaljustice
#racialequity
or
#GreenNewDeal
.
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Thank you
@joerogan
&
@mtaibbi
for profiling my
@CJR
investigation into the GatesFoundation's massive funding of journalism. These 'donations' have helped one of the world's most powerful people/institutions avoid journalistic scrutiny
@joeroganhq
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This story is at the very top of the landing page for the NYT's website right now.
NYT's fascination with wealth--and the wealthy--is a major editorial problem
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In my book, I have an entire section on NPR because it takes so much money from the Gates Foundation ($25 million) and b/c it is such a reliable amplifier of Gates's good deeds/intentions. This excerpt comes from an NPR interview claiming to ask "tough" questions of Bill Gates:
Former long-time NPR journalist
@AMontgomery_998
offers very similar analysis of NPR as me, a former long-time listener of NPR.
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It is bizarre that the NYT would give Gates 2000 words of prime real estate to play expert on pandemics. I thought journalism was supposed to afflict the comforted and comfort the afflicted. As always, the rules don't apply
Wow! If this is a preview of Bill Gates’ book on how to prevent pandemics, it won’t be worth reading.
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I’ve just learned that
@Twitter
has suspended another user for well informed totally above-the-board critical commentary about
#BillGates
. If you’ve ever been suspended, please DM or email me
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hmmm, can we talk about the $110 billion that Bill Gates didn't give away?
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Given the Gates Foundation's influential role in the pandemic, why aren't we talking about the foundation's investments in companies working on COVID vaccines/therapies/diagnostics? Politicians & scientists have to clearly disclose....but not Gates?
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May this mark the beginning of a new era of much-needed satire around our savior-in-chief
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As journalists take on financial ties to the subjects of their reporting (like the
@gatesfoundation
), where is the editorial oversight? My new investigation in
@CJR
reveals serial probs w/ unmanaged conflicts of interest
@nytimes
and beyond. Read on:
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The
#GatesFoundation
is now prescribing how African governments need to rebuild their economies (citing
#McKinsey
)? CNBC reports this as news?
I thought
#Africa
had democratically elected governments and their own experts to guide economic policy...hmm
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More than fifty news outlets covered my book, "The Bill Gates Problem," and my publisher sent advanced copies to multiple
@NPR
desks. No response. Just saying, if NPR is going to amplify Bill & Melinda's books, shouldn't they let listeners know there's another side to the story?
In my book, I have an entire section on NPR because it takes so much money from the Gates Foundation ($25 million) and b/c it is such a reliable amplifier of Gates's good deeds/intentions. This excerpt comes from an NPR interview claiming to ask "tough" questions of Bill Gates:
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Bill Gates apparently believes that poor nations in which his foundation works are 'unsophisticated' hunter-gatherer societies that depend on wild edibles. He doesn't know farmers have spent thousands of years selectively breeding their crops for yield/pest resistance/taste/etc?
Gates either doesn't understand GMO technology or is incredibly disingenuous. “All crops in the West are GMOs?” Meaning what? That any crop that has undergone any kind of kind of breeding is a GMO? By that definition, essentially all crops--everywhere---are GMOs. Misinformation
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Entire corners of public health, for example, are now determined by what Bill Gates thinks. A sober, rational assessment would call this what it is: oligarchy. Gates wields undemocratic power through his obscene wealth. 10/
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Did you know that humanitarianism is minting one-percent-ers? A short story 🧵 that starts w/ the Gates Foundation’s payroll—look at all these millionaires!
#TheBillGatesProblem
gets even more interesting; read on 1/
(Columns: hours worked per week then salary then benefits)
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Ladies and gentlemen, our humble humanitarian-in-chief:
“I’m the person who’s doing the most on climate in terms of the innovation and in how we can square multiple goals,” Gates said at the New York Times’ Climate Forward Summit.
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Could 'improving trust' be helped by limiting the role of unelected billionaires in the next pandemic response?
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
@IHME_UW
found that improving trust could make a critical difference when it comes to ending this pandemic and preventing the next one.
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I feel like I've read 1000 news stories about how Bill Gates doesn't want to spoil his children---and that instead of enriching his heirs he is donating his wealth to help poor people
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The GatesFoundation is promoting its commitment to diversity with its new board of trustees, who oversee its campaign to help poor people in the global south. Here's the board by the numbers--you decide: 50% billionaires, 66% white, 66% men, 100% based in the global north.
We’ve built an incredible organization in the
@gatesfoundation
over two decades and I’m excited about the next chapter in our history. Our new board members will help us build a world where every person has an opportunity to lead a healthy, productive life
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As we say goodbye to 2021, I’m thankful to all the brilliant & brave people whose stories & struggles made me see that we're not just in a covid pandemic but also a colonizer pandemic. There's no vaccine, but we’ve got diagnostics & treatment. ICYMI:
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“The people I meet in so many countries in Africa and Asia want to live in the United States—-because of capitalism"
Serious question: why do we give the richest people on Earth an uncritical platform to speak on behalf of the global poor?
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