Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it👉 Many of his staffers are from an opaque corporate misinformation network. We must understand this if we are to have any hope of fighting back against them #KochNetwork amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Over time, tobacco, coal, oil, chemicals and biotech companies have poured billions of dollars into an international misinformation machine composed of thinktanks, bloggers and fake citizens’ groups.
Its purpose is to portray the interests of billionaires as the interests of the common people, to wage war against trade unions and beat down attempts to regulate business and tax the very rich. Now the people who helped run this machine are shaping the government.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a advocacy group based in Washington DC with long ties to tobacco disinformation campaigns and more recently to climate change denial. ties to Koch/ #KochNetwork an "associate" member of SPN sourcewatch.org/index.php/Comp… 
Americans for Prosperity is a right-wing political advocacy group founded by billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch. sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amer…
Myron Ebell👉 directs the Global Warming and International Environmental Policy project at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Cooler Heads Coalition sourcewatch.org/index.php/Myro…
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