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Investigative Book 'The Bill Gates Problem' Challenges the 'Good Billionaire' Image
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In November 2023, investigative journalist Tim Schwab published 'The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire,' an extended critique drawn from his award-winning reporting for The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review and the BMJ. The book argues that Gates uses philanthropy to exercise vast, unaccountable political power — shaping public policy, scientific research, markets and the news media — and portrays him as fundamentally the same monopolist he was at Microsoft. It compiles criticisms that Gates-funded programs in education, agriculture and global health have often been undemocratic and ineffective, and that the foundation's funding of researchers and journalists creates conflicts of interest. The Gates Foundation has defended its work and transparency. The book became the most prominent book-length scrutiny of Gates's philanthropy.
Source: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-bill-gates-problem-9780241609484
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