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[โ€“] dumnezero@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Eh... non-profit, but heavily funded by Bill Gates and other very rich people.

This isn't to say that the facts are wrong, just that they have a bias towards "Business As Usual", with a lot of optimism that capitalistic market solutions will solve all the crises in the world.

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-new-funding-owd

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry

https://ourworldindata.org/writer-world-data-transformative-experience (she's the new Hans Rosling)