When COVID struck and states moved to establish lockdowns, work-from-home, and mask mandates, the demand for oil dropped precipitously — which threatened groups tied to billionaire Charles Koch, owner of Koch Industries, the largest privately held fossil fuel company in the world. Alex Kotch, Senior Investigative Reporter for the Center for Media and Democracy, recently co-authored an article “How the Koch Brothers Hijacked the War on COVID“, a deep-dive investigation of the Koch network’s efforts to supplant government COVID experts, promote/recruit for lockdown protests, support the “Great Barrington Declaration” advocating for “herd immunity”, and more.

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