(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Recent research into Bill Gates’s charity found hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into a smear campaign targeting billionaire Elon Musk, Breitbart reported.
Through public filings, the Foundation for Freedom Online followed the money trails of signatories in an open letter urging Twitter users to leave the platform if Musk’s deal succeeds
It found that millions of dollars from 11 of 26 organizations that signed the letter ultimately led back to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The New Venture Fund, a Gates-backed intermediary that disperses funds to other activist groups, gave grants to four of the organizations which signed: the Center for Media Justice, the Media Democracy Fund, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Accountable Tech.
The Tides Foundation, another recipient of Gates money, funded five more signers that claim to be focused around media and public relations: Free Press, Indivisible, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Media Matters and Black Lives Matter Global Network.
The two other signers receive the money directly from the Gates Foundation: Empowering Pacific Islanders Community and Reproaction.
The open letter’s connection to the Gates Foundation was an important discovery, as Gates and Musk are in the midst of a public feud.
Gates recently revealed his $500 million short-sale position against Tesla. The financial maneuver essentially amounts to betting on the company, which is owned by Musk, to fail in the future.
Gates also has been an outspoken proponent of censorship, calling on companies to stop “health misinformation” from spreading, particularly surrounding COVID and vaccinations.
In response to an article by the Washington Free Beacon—which found that one of the organizations, Accountable Tech, does not actually exist—Musk posted a tweet questioning the funding of the 26 non-governmental organizations that signed.
I wonder who funds them
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2022
The investigation by the Free Beacon led journalists to Accountable Tech’s office in Washington, DC, where they found that the group is not a real activist coalition.
“’Accountable Tech’ was merely a ‘registered trade [name] for the North Fund, a shape-shifting nonprofit group that uses aliases to push an array of left-wing causes from a shell office in Washington, D.C.’”
The Gates Foundation seem to have Musk in their cross-hairs, and this discovery makes it apparent that Gates is willing to spend a lot of money to keep Twitter’s censorship practices in the dark.
