by HAF on October 10, 2020, from HumansAreFree Website / Spanish version
Over the last decade, a small group of billionaire philanthropists have quietly moved into to seize control of key nodes of,
They claim that they are merely trying to 'fill in the funding gaps at struggling news organizations' - especially in the wake of the coronavirus 'pandemic.'
By far, the biggest player in this network is the Gates Foundation.
In short, Gates has long used his foundation's 'charitable' veneer to steer and shape the public discourse on global health.
In the case of COVID and vaccines, it is believed that Gates is using his billions to parlay both access and favorable news coverage.
A recent below investigation, conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) reveals a number of disturbing findings which point to a multibillion dollar network of information control and narrative management - with Bill Gates squarely at the center.
"Gates's 'generosity' appears to have helped foster an increasingly friendly media environment for the world's most visible charity."
Up to June of 2020, Bill Gates has ploughed no less than $250 million in foundation grants into mainstream journalism.
Takers include,
BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, Financial Times, The Atlantic, Gannett News and Le Monde,
...to name only a few.
Many other mainstream outlets are pocketing money for 'contracts' they have with the Gates Foundation, including Vox.
These mainstream outlets claim there are no strings attached to this 'free money' from Gates, but upon closer examination, this relationship appears to be fraught with influence peddling and obvious conflicts of interest.
When one considers how intimately involved the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is with multiple global stakeholders in the much-hyped impending roll-out COVID vaccines,
namely, through GAVI, and partnering with transnational pharmaceutical giants like AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Pfizer, Merck, J&J, Eli Lilly, Novartis, and others.
This is in addition to Gates funding of key 'global health' policy players like,
the Wellcome Trust
the World Health Organization (WHO),
...as well as various government agencies - the likelihood of conflicts of interest is enormous.
Not least of all is the fact that many of these same pharmaceutical firms are also the top advertising buyers on all of the major mainstream media outlets globally.
It's also been revealed how Gates is funding the supposed 'fact checkers' currently being used by Facebook and other social media firms - which are aggressively censoring any information on their platforms which is critical of Gates and pharmaceutical firms, particularly in relation to COVID and vaccines.
In this way, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is effectively operating at the head off an international cartel...
Incredibly, Gates even funded a 2016 report from the American Press Institute which was then used to develop reporting guidelines which supposedly tells newsrooms how maintain,
'editorial independence from philanthropic funders.'
Indeed, Gates has certainly covered all his bases.
The following below investigative findings by one of America's leading journalism review bodies should give cause for concern to news consumers all over the world.