As they did recently over gun safety, immigration, climate change, social justice and the infamous bathroom bills, major business leaders have protested new voter-restriction efforts in state legislatures. I am proud to have had a role in helping trigger some of this activity. Critics have mocked such civic engagement with headlines like “Woke CEOs’ Foolhardy…
Category: dark money
Amazon, Target and Netflix among companies signing letter opposing voting restrictions – The Washington Post
Top Republican officials continue to push back against a surge of major companies and corporate leaders who oppose new voting laws being pursued by Republicans in dozens of states, with fresh signs that some in the GOP are waiting to see how far companies are willing to go on this issue. Even as executives representing…
BlackRock should disclose political activity, pension funds say – The Washington Post
Public pension funds overseeing more than $1 trillion are piling pressure on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, to ramp up disclosure of its political activities in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. In a Monday letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, 24 officials from retirement funds accuse the Wall…
Coca-Cola Severs Longtime Ties With Pro-Sugar Group – Bloomberg
It is very good news to see Coca-Cola stepping away from another of those dark money-funded fake front groups promoting disinformation about science. LSI was founded by a former Coca-Cola executive Alex Malaspina and has deep ties to Big Food and Soda. Coca-Cola’s decision follows other major corporations, like Mars, Inc. and Nestlé, cutting ties…
Corporations Withdraw Support for Seditious Elected Officials and Organizations – CNN
VEA Vice Chair Nell Minow is quoted in this article about corporations withdrawing support for elected officials who supported or incited the attack on the Capitol. In the past 48 hours, American Express, Marriott, Dow, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Morgan Stanley, Commerce Bank and others have suspended their donations to Republican lawmakers who objected…
20 corporations, $16 million, and 138 Republicans trying to subvert democracy – Popular Information
[M]any of the members [of Congress and the Senate] who are planning to object to the certification of the vote on Wednesday are generously supported by corporate America. A Popular Information analysis reveals, over the last six years, 20 prominent corporations — including AT&T, Comcast, Deloitte, Amazon, Microsoft, and Pfizer — have donated at least…
More Disinformation from FTI Consulting — Major Fossil Fuel PR Group is Behind Europe Pro-Hydrogen Push
The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms. According to a new report, titled The Hydrogen Hype: Gas Industry Fairy Tale or…
Fossil Fuel Giants Claim To Support Climate Science, Yet Still Fund Denial | HuffPost
More on the disgraceful disinformation campaign conducted by FTI Consulting on behalf of its fossil fuel clients, which included the creation of fake front groups, fake “information” resources, even fake social medial profiles. [D]ocuments and recordings reviewed by HuffPost show that the Independent Petroleum Association of America has spent almost $2 million a year for…
FTI axed by clients in fallout over oil industry work | Financial Times
FTI Consulting has been dumped by at least three of its clients while several global asset managers are reviewing their relationship with the business advisory and public relations consultancy, as the fallout from a media report about controversial work for the oil industry intensifies. MSCI, the ratings and index provider and CDP, a non-profit group…
