In 2019, Mike Bloomberg’s annual Global Business Forum in New York City was sponsored by the MiSK foundation — the personal foundation of Saudi Arabia’s dictator, Mohammad Bin Salman.
Freedom Forward online activists took over the event’s Twitter hashtag (#BloombergGBF) and drove a steady drumbeat of criticism via emails, phone calls, and online criticism.
One month later, Bloomberg announced that their reporters would no longer participate as panel moderators in Saudi Arabia’s annual investment conference — “Davos in the Desert.”
