Reprinted below is a message by Elizabeth Woodworth, which she subtitled “A new way to run the world’s ‘global brain.” It is apparently her first communication in Jilly’s Newsletter. Click HERE for the original. Worth noting is that eight of the prominent medical and scientific authorities she lists as having been “systematically suppressed by social media” are on a longer list of individuals to whom Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dedicates his 2021 book The Real Anthony Fauci. — MCM
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Proposal to Elon Musk to Create a Charitable Trust to Purchase and Run Twitter, or to Create a Replacement
By Elizabeth Woodworth | Jilly’s Newsletter
Introduction
On March 25, 2022, Elon Musk tweeted a question that was voted on. by more than two million people:
Afterwards, he concluded, on March 26: “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.”
Considering that Twitter was launched March 21, 2006, why has Musk questioned its principles now?
Perhaps because it has become obvious to those paying attention that during this two-year pandemic, many critical thinkers with longstanding contributions have suffered the permanent loss of their Twitter accounts. For example, Dr. Robert Malone, an early contributor to mRNA technology development, and with more than half a million followers, was suspended December 29, 2021.i
This kind of banishment has been studied.
Following the June 2019 formation of the “Trusted News Initiative” (TNI), a one-voice media emerged to broadcast the official Covid-19 narrative – and to silence anyone on social media who challenged it:
“An international process of editorial standardization delivered unprecedented news coverage of the monopolized message:
- The pandemic threatens the survival of all humanity
- There is no therapy to cure the sick
- It is necessary to confine the whole population, and
- The delivery will come only from a vaccine.”ii
However, we knew from the outset that Covid-19 kills only 0.23% (approx. 1 in 400) of those infected.iii
And we have also known that there has never been a vaccine successfully deployed against a coronavirus.
Now, two years later, we see that neither the lockdowns nor the vaccines offered significantly lasting protection to the public.
Indeed, they simply delayed the herd immunity that, according to bio-statistician Dr. Knut Witkowski, usually follows within weeks if our natural defenses are free to encounter a virus.ivHe therefore recommended shielding the elderly and letting the virus circulate. After a million views of his April 2020 YouTube comments, they were removed – one of the earliest acts of censorship.
Many other medical voices calling for focused protection of the elderly/vulnerable – and for early antiviral treatment with the WHO “essential medicines” hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin – were systematically suppressed by social media. Behind it all lay the TNI’s early warning system.v
Those suppressed include the following prominent professors and researchers at the tops of their fields, with outstanding publication histories,vi and conflict-of-interest-free credentials. Each is linked to his or her Google Scholar publication record:
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, epidemiologist, Stanford University
Dr. Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist, Oxford Univ.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, epidemiologist, formerly of Harvard, now the Brownstone Institute
Dr. Robert W. Malone, early contributor to of mRNA technology
Dr. Peter A. McCullough, former Vice-Chair Int. Med., Baylor Univ.
Dr. Didier Raoult, microbiologist and director, IHU Méditerranée Infection; Professor at Aix Marseille Université
Dr. Harvey A. Risch, Prof. Epid., Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, biometrician, 20-year head, biostatistics/epid., Rockefeller University
Dr. Michael Yeadon, former VP of respiratory research, Pfizer.
Two major problems have become obvious:
- The world does not have an apolitical, non-commercial, uncensored independent discussion forum open to all;
- This circumstance has forced people to self-censor on existing platforms for fear of being silenced in the strange new social media world that has emerged from Covid-19.
Question? Is there an organizational model that could be used to set up a permanent global democratic discussion platform that is:
- open to all
- free of charge for public use
- non-discriminatory for participation, but has rules of civility;
- legally established by a governing document such as a constitution, with a clear statement of purpose to enable democratic discussion;
- running as a society, a foundation, or a cooperative, having an internally elected governing board to head its administration;
- initially financed by its settlor (see below) to be self-sustaining through investments;
- strictly non-commercial, not intended to realize profits, or to be listed on the stock market;
- employing methods to block bots, which are used to massively distort the perception of opinion popularity and generality
- a world resource, strictly apolitical, and is registered accordingly;
- structured to exist and perform through time for its beneficiary, the world public
The answer: Yes, there is such a model.
These conditions can all be fulfilled by a charitable trust.
A Brief Introduction to Charitable Trusts
First, what is a trust?
A trust is:
“a relationship created at the direction of an individual, in which one or more persons hold the individual’s property subject to certain duties to use and protect it for the benefit of others.”vii
Basic Concepts:viii
The person who creates the trust is the settlor.
The person who holds the property for another’s benefit is the trustee.
The person who is benefited by the trust is the beneficiary, or cestui que trust.
The property that comprises the trust is the trust res, corpus, principal, or subject matter. For example, a parent signs over certain stock to a bank to manage for a child, with instructions to give the dividend checks to him/her each year until s/he becomes 21 years of age, at which time s/he is to receive all the stock.
The parent is the settlor, the bank is the trustee, the stock is the trust res, and the child is the beneficiary.
A trustee takes legal title to the trust res, which means that the trustee’s interest in the property appears to be one of complete ownership and possession, but the trustee does not have the right to receive any benefits from the property. The right to benefit from the property, known as equitable title, belongs to the beneficiary.
Charitable Trusts ix
The purpose of a Charitable Trust is to accomplish a substantial social benefit for some portion of the public. The law favors charitable trusts by according them certain privileges, such as an advantageous tax status. Before a court will enforce a charitable trust, however, it must examine the alleged charity and evaluate its social benefits. The court cannot rely on the settlor’s view that the trust is charitable.
To be valid, a charitable trust must meet certain requirements. The settlor must have the intent to create a charitable trust, there must be a trustee to administer the trust, which consists of some trust property, and the charitable purpose must be expressly designated. The beneficiary must be a definite segment of the community composed of indefinite persons.
Charitable Purpose A charitable purpose is one that benefits, improves, or uplifts humankind mentally, morally, or physically. The relief of poverty, the improvement of government, and the advancement of religion, education, or health are some examples of charitable purposes.
Beneficiaries The class to be benefited in a charitable trust must be a definite segment of the public. It must be large enough so that the community in general is affected and has an interest in the enforcement of the trust, yet it must not include the entire human race. Within the class, however, the specific persons to benefit must be indefinite.
A trust for designated persons or a trust for profit cannot be a charitable trust. A trust to “erect and maintain a hospital” might be charitable even though the hospital charges the patients who are served, provided that any profits are used solely to continue the charitable services of the hospital.
As a general rule, a charitable trust may last forever, unlike a private trust. In a private trust, the designated beneficiary is the proper person to enforce the trust. In a charitable trust, the state attorney general, who represents the public interest, is the proper person to enforce the trust.x
Conclusion
A longstanding charitable trust, financed by its investments to provide a global town square for the free exchange of human ideas, could survive over time.
Twitter offers a remarkably creative, versatile, high-functioning model. Tweets can be searched back to 2006; its platform is a virtual historic record of world events for much of this century.
Millions of people hang out in its rich environment of 500 million new tweets per day,xi enjoying the tremendous resources of what might be called “the global brain”.
If Mr. Musk did not purchase Twitter outright, he could duplicate the functionality that the world has come to love.
i Robert W. Malone, “Permanently suspended on Twitter…and how to find me,” December 29, 2021. (https://rwmalonemd.substack(dot)com/p/permanently-suspended-on-twitter?s=r).
ii Laurent Mucchielli, “How is built the ‘legitimate information’ on the Covid crisis,” UMR 7305, CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, April 2020 (https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MS-Mucchielli.pdf). Translation from French.
iii Ioannidis J. “The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data,” Bull World Health Organ., Epub Oct. 14, 2020 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33716331/).
The British Medical Journal, citing this article, reported: “Clearly, mortality is age-stratified from covid-19. The corrected median estimates of IFP [Infection Fatality Rate] for people aged lower than 70 years is currently 0.05%, [2] which, for the population less vulnerable to deaths, is similar to influenza. However overall estimates for covid-19 are higher [i.e., 0.23%], due to the higher fatality rate in elderly people.” BMJ October 6, 2020 (https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3883/rr).
iv Edward Peter Stringham, “Stand Up for Your Rights, says Bio-Statistician Knut M. Wittkowski, American Institute for Economic Research, 20 April 2020 (https://www.aier.org/article/stand-up-for-your-rights-says-bio-statistican-knut-m-wittkowski/).
v Elizabeth Woodworth, “COVID-19 and the Shadowy ‘Trusted News Initiative’: How it Methodically Censors Top World Public Health Experts Using an Early Warning System,” 22 January 2022 (https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-shadowy-trusted-news-initiative/5752930).
vi A scientist’s credibility can be estimated by how often his/her published articles are cited in the indexed, peer-reviewed literature. This is quantified as the h-index number, and can be found by searching an author’s name on Google Scholar, e.g., Harvard Medical School biostatistician and epidemiologist, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, has been cited 26,087 times and has an h-index of 77. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNEj34MAAAAJ&hl=en).
vii https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/trust
viii Ibid.
ix Ibid.
x Ibid.
xi Omnicore, “Twitter by the Numbers: Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts,” 22 February, 2022 (https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/)
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