CONFLICT OF INTEREST? Climate-Obsessed AP Reveals Wacky Eco-Extremist Donor

NewsBusters ^ | 1/3/2023 | Joseph Vazquez

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How The Associated Press could admit to being financed by eco-extremist donors and yet still claim to be neutral when it comes to its climate change reporting defies common sense.

The AP website lists as one of its “current philanthropic supporters” the “KR Foundation,” which boasts of how it’s “[s]upporting a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels.” The organization, which is based in Denmark, is financing the equivalent of roughly $300,000 USD to AP spread out between the years 2022 and 2024 for its Global Scholars Network. The Washington Free Beacon, which first broke the news, noted that despite AP’s false veneer of transparency, “the news outlet added the KR Foundation to its list of current philanthropic supporters only this month, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of the AP website.” MRC Business revealed in a 2023 analysis how AP’s multimillion-dollar funding from leftist special interest groups had effectively made it a propaganda arm of the climate change lobby.

If KR’s climate alarmist goal wasn’t telling enough, KR is also specifically leading an effort to drive U.S. banks out of fossil fuels. It particularly bemoaned how the rise of the “anti-ESG” movement was allegedly causing “many financial institutions to backpedal on their climate ambitions.” How dare Americans not want gargantuan asset managers forcing companies to adopt woke, leftist corporate policies.