Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science. An audit trail reveals the attacks were supported by the American billionaire Charles Koch who, with his brother David, jointly owns a majority stake in Koch Industries, a large oil, gas and chemicals conglomerate based in Kansas.

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[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And also now own PBS basically

[–]allie[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know David sponsors a lot of nature programs but I wouldn't call that owning PBS.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you're the majority funder the majority of the time, that's pretty close to ownership. It's easy to call in favors at that point. Like getting that PBS documentary about the Koch brothers censored a few years ago.