They accepted, and continue to accept a great amount of money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. That foundation owns over $11 billion in investments in the fossil fuel industry, including coal-burning utility companies.
In return, there were quite a few videos that Kurzgesagt admits were funded directly by the Foundation, that exaggerate the positive influence corporations owned by the foundation have had. Videos which the CEO of Kurzgesagt has admitted they probably would not have made if the Foundation had not paid for them.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Idk about fossil fuels but they been directly being sponsored by big companies and in return making propoganda for them for a few years now.
youtu.be/HjHMoNGqQTI
Gloomy@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
As much as i regret linking to reddit here, i feel it is fair to also post the channels answer to the video.
reddit.com/…/kurzgesagt_statement_to_the_conflict…
nuko147@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I watch that channel for years and i had no idea. I post his answer over the channels answer. Although that is 3 years old, i wonder what is now happening.
www.reddit.com/r/…/my_response_to_kurzgesagt/