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These German reporters went undercover to expose @HeartlandInst’s “pay to play” climate denial operation. Worth. A. Watch.
zdf.de/politik/fronta…
To summarize: right-wing donors who wish to remain fingerprint free donate to dark money groups like DonorsTrust. DonorsTrust doesn’t have to reveal its donors because technically the donors don’t get final say on where the money goes. But realistically everyone’s in on the game.
DonorsTrust then funnels the now anonymous money to @HeartlandInst, which uses it to spread climate denial & misinformation. One way Heartland does this is by paying influencers to speak out against climate science.
It is time to shine a light on this web of denial: the bad actors anonymously funding these efforts, the shell-corporations through which the money is transmitted, and of course the organizations actively fighting against climate science.
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