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be careful re tweet posted on FR earlier claiming his lover worked for Soros-connected org.
maybe not, but there’s enough stuff - gloBULL warming being the most obvious - to indicate just what Ferguson’s motivations might have been in exaggering, hyping up his model:

Wikipedia: Avaaz
UK-based newspaper The Guardian considers it “the globe’s largest and most powerful online activist network”...
Avaaz.org was co-founded by Res Publica, a “community of public sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance, civic virtue and deliberative democracy,” and MoveOn.org, an American non-profit progressive public policy advocacy group. It was also supported by Service Employees International Union, a founding partner...

On 5 May 2020, Antonia Staats, a senior campaigner for Avaaz, was named as the lover of Professor Neil Ferguson, who advocated a mass lockdown in response to COVID-19, but breached its stipulations in pursuing his affair...

“Since 2009, Avaaz has not taken donations from foundations or corporations, nor has it accepted payments of more than $5,000 (£3,100),” The Guardian reported. “Instead, it relies simply on the generosity of individual members, who have now raised over $20m (£12.4m).” Prior to 2009 various foundations had funded Avaaz’s staff and start-up costs...

Ideology
Avaaz claims to unite practical idealists from around the world...
In practice, Avaaz often supports causes considered progressive, such as calling for global action on climate change, challenging Monsanto, and building greater global support for refugees...

***In the 2016 United States presidential election, Avaaz campaigned against Donald Trump with the slogan “Defeat Donald Trump”, and produced a software tool to simplify overseas voter registration...

In 2008, Canadian conservative minister John Baird labeled Avaaz a “shadowy foreign organization” tied to billionaire George Soros.
Another Canadian, conservative media personality Ezra Levant, tried to make a link between Soros and Avaaz.org as an indirect supporter through MoveOn, but the article was later retracted as baseless and an apology was offered to Soros.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaaz

LinkedIn: Antonia Staats, Senior Campaigner at Avaaz.org, London
Campaigner/Senior Campaigner
Avaaz.org
2011 – Present
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/antonia-staats-263081b5