Rupert Murdoch

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Australian-American media oligarch & billionaire; presides over the world's largest climate denial media empire.

News Corp

Owner of News Corp.

Fox News

Founded Fox News in 1996, choosing Republican PR executive Roger Ailes as the company's first CEO and Chairman.

Rupert Murdoch has been the executive chairman of Fox News since 2016,

Fox Sports

Superbowl 57

Elon Musk

Both right-wing greenwashing media oligarchs were pictured sitting together at the Superbowl in February 2023. Their media platforms (Twitter & Fox Sports) used the event to host a coordinated greenwashing & advertising campaign. Elon Musk also owns a leading electric car company, Tesla.

Electric Cars

Automobiles (electric or not) kill an estimated 1 million animals on high-speed U.S. roadways every day. Jeep's "Grand Cherokee" ad greenwashed their electric automobile as wildlife-friendly with a broad menagerie of 'dancing' animated CGI animals.

Ram Trucks teased prospective buyers over their supposed fear of "premature electrification."

In the rush to power U.S. electric cars, there is an Anti-Indigenous Lithium rush underway:

  • Thacker Pass [1]
  • About the Coup in Bolivia where 50-70% of the world's Lithium is, Elon Tweeted: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it" - referring to the nation's Indigenous, democratically elected leadership and government.

Fox Nation

Yellowstone