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Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Whistleblower Aid Client Reveals - Whistleblower Aid

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 4, 2023 MEDIA CONTACTRadim Dragomaca, [email protected] Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Whistleblower Aid Client Reveals University’s Former Disinformation Expert Joan Donovan Calls for Investigation  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Harvard University dismantled its prestigious team of online disinformation experts after a foundation run by

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Sadly foot soldiers in the trenches of the global civil war over climate will not be able read the authors' full arguments, because another conflicted industry is dependent on a different form of degeneration.

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-022-03466-0

Following the money: trade associations, political activity and climate change - Climatic Change

The political activities of industries associated with the production and consumption of fossil fuels have thwarted state efforts to advance climate policy. Yet research on the role of trade associations that firms use to coordinate their activities remains sparse. Studies of business political activity are generally focussed on the firm level with trade associations typically considered only as part of wider advocacy coalitions. Scholars are still to examine the full range of political activities of trade associations. Using an original dataset built from trade associations’ IRS filings, we find that trade associations engaged on climate change spent $3.4 billion in 10 years on political activities, with the largest expenditure on advertising and promotion, followed by lobbying, grants and political contributions. Our data challenges the prevailing assumptions about the primary political activities of business actors. To explain the variation in spending, we present the findings from a regression analysis and semi-structured interviews. We argue that scholars have for too long failed to account for the political activities of trade associations, which are also one of the most important opponents of climate policies.

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