![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) ## Millions instead of billions # Media companies receive significantly less funding from the Gates Foundation April 15, 2024, 2:22 p.m. (CEST), last update: April 16, 2024, 10:17 a.m. (CEST) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is spending billions of dollars to... Control media? This is claimed in a video - but it's true not. The funding of journalism is a constant concern, especially on social media for discussions. The question is usually whether one of the Independent reporting is possible for donors. In a current one The widely circulated video clip is exactly about this topic. In the excerpt from A panel discussion includes, among others, the critics of the Corona measures Sucharit Bhakdi and Claus Köhnlein can be seen. The latter claims in one Having read a report that “a certain Bill Gates” earns 4.8 annually billions of euros would be spent on the European media - and has been since 2014. During the pandemic we saw that “the media is all up line were». ## Evaluation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports many organizations financially. However, the annual funding for media companies is only double-digit million range. ## Facts The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the largest philanthropic foundations foundations in the world. The finances can be viewed on the website. As the Annual reports from the Foundation show their annual Total expenditure in the single-digit billion range. The total is just under 4.8 Billion US dollars for 2017 comes close to the claim in the video next. However, these are different funding projects - the payments to Media only accounts for a fraction of the total. Promoted in 2023 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the “Global Media Partnerships” six projects with a total of almost 18 million US dollars. According to the foundation, a basic principle of funding should be editorial be independent. This is also emphasized by “Spiegel”, which has been published for several years was funded: “The editorial content in the Global Society project arise without any influence of the foundation, it is also contractual held. The foundation also has an influence beyond this editorial content of SPIEGEL excluded.” The clip was filmed during the “2. Corona Symposium” of the AfD parliamentary group Bundestag. The event took place on November 11th and 12th in the Bundestag building. (As of: April 15, 2024) ## Links Post (archived) dpa fact check Annual reports (archived) “Global Media Partnerships” 2023 (archived) About “Global Media Partnerships” (archived) “Spiegel” supported by the Gates Foundation (archived) Program «2. Corona Symposium” (archived) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. Find detailed information about this program You here. Explanations from Facebook/Meta on how to deal with accounts that provide false information spread, can be found here. If you have any objections or comments regarding the content, please send them with a link to the affected Facebook post to faktencheck@dpa.com. To use Please use the relevant templates for this. Find information about objections You here. Did you know? If you have doubts about a message, claim, image or If you have a video, you can also contact the dpa fact check via WhatsApp. Further information can be found here. powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
Bill Gates spends 48 billion euros a year on the European media