![]() Early in the pandemic, the Gates Foundation inserted itself, in a very central way, into the pandemic response. ![]() It’s been really an extraordinary couple years for the Gates Foundation. In this conversation, Jacobin’s Luke Savage sits down with Schwab to discuss Gates’s media strategy, what lies ahead for the Gates Foundation, and how billionaire-led big philanthropy has inserted itself into public interest journalism. Last year, he published a lengthy investigation into Gates’s media contributions - a hitherto underexplored part of the Gates empire and the key to understanding Gates’s cozy relationship with the world’s imagemakers. Investigative journalist Tim Schwab has spent much of the past year and half writing on Gates, his foundation, and the way both have leveraged charitable giving to advance an agenda. ![]() Amid his divorce, allegations of personal misconduct, and renewed scrutiny of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Gates’s image was suddenly facing its most serious crisis in at least two decades. ![]() At the outset of the pandemic, Bill Gates seemed to be everywhere: appearing on news outlets throughout the world and positioning himself, with stunning success, as a leader of the global response to COVID-19. The past year and a half have been a roller-coaster ride for the public image of the world’s most famous philanthropist. ![]()
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