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Thursday, January 5th, 2023

Koch-Funded Legal Group Fights to Protect COVID Misinformation

Author:     Walker Bragman
Source:     truthout / The Center For Media and Democracy
Publication Date:     December 22, 2022
 Link: Koch-Funded Legal Group Fights to Protect COVID Misinformation
Stephan:   The weaponization of lies has become a major trend in the United States. You have the uber-rich using their wealth to spread misinformation. The nonsense disseminated by far-right oligarchs like Charles Koch has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the last two years, and none of them have been held accountable.
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A Koch-funded legal group is suing the state of California to protect the medical licenses of doctors who promote quack cures for Covid-19.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a right-wing litigation operation funded in large part by oil billionaire and industrialist Charles Koch, is behind the latest lawsuit. In 2021, the group received more than $1 million from Stand Together Fellowships, formerly the Charles Koch Institute — the same amount it received in 2020 — and $15,418 from the Charles Koch Foundation. In addition, DonorsTrust, the preferred spending conduit of Koch network donors, gave NCLA just over $1 million in 2021.

As the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) previously reported, NCLA has been representing prominent purveyors of Covid-related misinformation in a lawsuit against the Biden administration. The complaint in Missouri et al. v. Biden et al alleges that the federal government coerced and colluded with social media companies to censor misinformation on their platforms in violation of the First Amendment freedom of speech rights of social media users to post whatever they like, regardless […]

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