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oh here is another one

Charles Kock, the other disgusting brother has given Billions to a Non-profit for continue #KockIndustries and #KockBrothers #KochNetwork cancerous #ClimateDenying ways well into the future

Exclusive: Charles Koch Has Given More Than $5 Billion Of His Stock To Two Nonprofits

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/exclusive-charles-koch-koch-industries-has-given-more-than-5-billion-of-his-koch-industries-stock-to-two-nonprofits/

How Charles Kock Purchased the Supreme Court's EPA Decision
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/

Nicole Parsons is talking about this on another thread today I just found

@GottaLaff

https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/112890489443196547

#ClimateChange

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Exclusive: Charles Koch Has Given More Than $5 Billion To Two Nonprofits

His previously unreported $4.3 billion gift to Believe in People is now the largest publicly disclosed donation to a 501(c)4–a type of nonprofit with fewer restrictions on lobbying and politics than traditional charities.

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The Koch Brothers' Political Donations: Unveiling Their Influence in American Politics
Published at Monday, November 27, 2023 at 6:05 AM CDT

https://thepoliticswatcher.com/pages/articles/congress/2023/11/27/koch-brothers-political-donations-unveiling-influence-american-politics

The Koch Brothers and Their Political Donations: A Threat to Democracy?
Published at Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:28 PM

https://thepoliticswatcher.com/pages/articles/congress/2023/4/1/koch-brothers-political-donations-threat-democracy

David Koch and PBS: The Odd Couple
By Michael Getler
May 25, 2013

https://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2013/05/david_koch_and_pbs_the_odd_couple.html

David Kock dies in 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network

Before David Kock dies he steps down from NPR / PBS board (not sure exactly which and where) and a Kock Industries lackey steps in to serve on the board in his place. This is from my memory and I don't remember the name and I would rather not spend the time to find it right now but this gives you a good head start on where I was coming from

#NPR #PBS #RightWingInfluence #KockIndustries #KockBrothers

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The Koch Brothers' Political Donations: Unveiling Their Influence in American Politics

Explore the extensive political donations of the Koch Brothers and their impact.

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Kock may be working on scrubbing their involvement on these activities but lets look at a breif search of what I found.

David Kock has spent billions of dollars in far right funding – they started the Tea Party which later metastasized into the MAGA movement. By 2013 he was sitting on the board of Trustees of WGBH a Boston station that produces large amounts of programming for NPR and PBS

Activists Slam David Koch's Public TV Role
By Kate Sheppard
Oct 9, 2013, 08:33 PM EDT
|https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-koch-public-tv_n_4073754

the above article says he is on the baord of WGBH – that is what produces a big part of NPR's national programming

What is WGBH Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGBH_(FM)

Activists turn up heat on WGBH over role of David Koch
By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | April 8, 2014
https://current.org/2014/04/activists-turn-up-heat-on-wgbh-over-role-of-david-koch/

#NPR #PBS #RightWingInfluence #KockIndustries #KockBrothers

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David Koch Should Lose Public TV Board Seat Over 'Anti-Science' Views, Activists Argue

Activists Slam David Koch's Public TV Role

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@InkySchwartz

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Quick caveat: I am not a reporter, much of the information I know about NPR and PBS and Kock Brothers roles in these are from me causally being aware of it from the early 2010s. There is a LOT of information on Kock Industries and where they got their money from Oil and Gas and that they were early Climate Change deniers.

Two years ago I searched for the Kock Brothers influence into NPR and I had a number of good sources. Today having spent . . . I don't know . .. an hour. I seem to not be able to reproduce those results. This is what I found thus far.

In the early 2010s David Kock made a push to influence change through corporate donations on a broad scope of areas – college boards – changing journalism programs to bothside-sism, Public Radio and Television and other areas.

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#NPR #PBS #RightWingInfluence #KockIndustries #KockBrothers

TashaAug 2, 2024

@InkySchwartz

Ok I looked to see if you were Sealioning me. You appear to be legit let me find some of the reports

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Ok here is my response and some links to get you started on how the #KockIndustries #KockBrothers and #DavidKock are influencing #NPR and #PBS

https://universeodon.com/@TashaKostolany/112893381596714507

Tasha (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Thread 1/N Quick caveat: I am not a reporter, much of the information I know about NPR and PBS and Kock Brothers roles in these are from me causally being aware of it from the early 2010s. There is a LOT of information on Kock Industries and where they got their money from Oil and Gas and that they were early Climate Change deniers. Two years ago I searched for the Kock Brothers influence into NPR and I had a number of good sources. Today having spent . . . I don't know . .. an hour. I seem to not be able to reproduce those results. This is what I found thus far. In the early 2010s David Kock made a push to influence change through corporate donations on a broad scope of areas – college boards – changing journalism programs to bothside-sism, Public Radio and Television and other areas. Thread 1/N #NPR #PBS #RightWingInfluence #KockIndustries #KockBrothers

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