Bloomberg
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Not to be confused with its billionaire owner Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg News was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in 1990, to deliver financial news reporting to Bloomberg terminal subscribers. In 2000, Bloomberg News included more than 2,300 editors and reporters in 100 countries.[1] Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through the Bloomberg terminal, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg.com. Since 2015, John Micklethwait has been editor-in-chief.[2]
Propaganda straight from US government
In March 2019, the Russian phone pranksters 'Vova' and 'Lexus' managed to deceive the US envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams. They called him and pretended to be the "president of Switzerland" and asked what they should do with the Venezuelan money that was in accounts of a fictitious Swiss bank called "Limpopo", by an equally fictitious "Baidilda"-fund. Abrams fell for it, and wanted to freeze the Venezuelan money in the accounts, or better, transfer it directly to the unsuccessful coup plotter Juan Guaidó.[4]
The "Swiss president" agreed, but he noted that the money was "clean" and there was no legal way to freeze the accounts. Abrams then asked what the "Swiss president" needed. The answer was: "Information that these funds were received by criminal or other illegal means".[4]
They agreed to clarify the details by e-mail and then Abrams offered that Bloomberg would publish an article that would reveal "money laundering" by President Nicolas Maduro, so that Switzerland would then have a legal pretext. Abrams sent the text of the article to the "Swiss President" so that he could make corrections. The article was published by Bloomberg on February 25, 2019. Bloomberg did not even google the name of the bank or the fund, which would have exposed the story as false.[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.ft.com/content/10b70754-f98e-11df-9e29-00144feab49
- ↑ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/bloombergs-future-future-news-everyone/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20250404142221/https://web.archive.org/web/20190226003036/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/maduro-may-hold-millions-in-baidilda-fund-opposition-says
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20250216173832/https://anti-spiegel.com/2019/russische-pranker-decken-auf-wie-anti-venezolanische-propaganda-in-westlichen-medien-platziert-wird/
