12 Groups Behind Protest of Musk's Twitter Takeover Have Ties With Gates Foundation, Soros

A dozen liberal groups that pressured Twitter advertisers to boycott the platform in response to Elon Musk's plans to acquire it received money from entities backed by Bill Gates and George Soros, an analysis of public filings shows.

In early May, a group of 26 organizations penned a public letter claiming that the Tesla CEO's takeover of Twitter would "Be a direct threat to public safety" and turn the platform into "a cesspool of misinformation." The letter called for Twitter's top advertisers to "Hold [Musk] to account" by committing to "Non-negotiable" standards for doing business with the site, one of which is to not restore the accounts of political and public figures banned for "Egregious violations of Twitter Rules." The letter contained the logos of Accountable Tech, Media Matters for America, and UltraViolet Action.

An analysis of the public filings and records shows that at least 11 of the letter's signatories or their affiliated groups have taken money from organizations funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The New Venture Fund, the recipient of more than $500 million in grants from the Gates Foundation since 2012, in 2020 gave $180,000 in total to two signees, Media Matters for America and Center for Media Justice.

Tides Foundation, a Gates Foundation grantee since at least 2013, has handed over $2.34 million to eight of the signatories or their affiliates over a three year-period since 2019.

The other seven signatories that received money from Tides Foundation in the past three years are: women's advocacy group UltraViolet Action; environmentalist groups Union of Concerned Scientists and Friends of the Earth; pro-abortion association NARAL Pro-Choice America; Black Lives Matter South Bend, a local chapter of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation; GLAAD, which monitors media portrayal of LGBTQ groups; and Media Matters Action Network, a partner project of Media Matters for America.

The Gates Foundation connections were first reported by Breitbart.

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