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Bill Gates paid millions to block Elon Musk's plans!
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has poured hundreds of millions of dollars
into 11 out of 26 organizations to prevent Elon Musk from taking over "Twitter,"
according to Short's data with Breitbart by Freedom Online.
Gates
The software mogul :
who became an expert on the pandemic
The 26 organizations signed an open letter last month calling on advertisers to
"Musk's takeover of
- Twitter will increase the toxicity of our information system
- and pose a direct threat to public safety especially among
- the most vulnerable and already marginalized."
The letter stated that advertisers who continued to work with the platform risked
"being associated with a platform that amplifies hatred, extremism
Bill Gates warns Elon Musk!
"It can actually make it worse :
Gates said of Musk on Wednesday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
What is his goal?
had failed to stop false comments about the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said :
He vowed to return
freedom of expression to the platform
raising concerns that Twitter would no longer
censor comments described as "misinformation."
However :
determining whether speech is false is often in the eye of the beholder. For example
some controlled comments early in the epidemic -- such as the theory that the virus
originated in a Chinese laboratory -- became prevalent in subsequent months.
Of the 11 :
organizations supported by Gates :
reports led efforts to acquire Musk on Twitter by lobbying advertisers to boycott
the platform :
- the New Venture Fund, a "dark money" organization that
- in 2020 received the largest one-year commitment
- by the Foundation in more than five years.
all of which have signed :
the open letter in support of Al-Mawadir province and have received
some 102 separate cash grants from Gates since 2008
totalling $457 million :
- according to the private financial institution's disclosures.
- The group of other signatories such as Sixteen Thirty Fund
- included subsidiaries of the New Venture Fund.
The founder of SpaceX
made a distinctive move to Twitter to express his grievances, likening
Gates' image to "pregnant man" and describing the images as "Bonner's killer."
health :
misinformation and conspiracy theorists."
The board approved Musk's $44 billion offer to buy Twitter earlier this month
but the acquisition was postponed as the billionaire called on Twitter to prove that
"fake accounts already account for less than 5% of users.
The Platform
made this 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 real figures could be higher.
Bill Gates is preparing
- for a potential problem when fellow billionaire Elon Musk completes
- his Twitter takeover, saying that a free speech advocate could
- make misinformation more widespread.
Gates said:
"I doubt this will happen this time, but we must
have an open mind and not underestimate Elon.
Where he talks about openness, how does he feel about something that
says vaccines kill people or that Bill Gates is tracking people?
Is this one of
the things he thinks should be published?
It is therefore still not entirely clear what he will do. "
When you don't have trusted leaders talking about vaccines, it's very difficult
for platforms to work against it. So I think we have
a leadership problem, we have a statute problem. "
Musk claimed that "freedom of expression is
the cornerstone of an effective democracy."
The Wall Street Journal interview came a day after Gates told NBC News that
perhaps there should be laws that "strike a better balance between freedom of
expression versus conspiracy theories that confuse people."
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