For decades, Hollywood has marketed celebrity charity as untouchable virtue. Big concerts, emotional speeches, and carefully produced images told Americans that stars were saving the world. Questioning that narrative was treated as bad taste or worse.
Now, one researcher is forcing that conversation into the open.
Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, has been laying out a case that challenges the spotless humanitarian image surrounding U2 frontman Bono. And the deeper Benz digs, the more uncomfortable the story becomes for Hollywood’s self-styled saviors.
Benz argues that Bono’s global activism is not just about compassion and charity. According to Benz, it sits inside a much larger ecosystem involving elite power networks, government agencies, and information control.
The Charity Narrative Nobody Was Supposed to Question
Bono built his public reputation as a global humanitarian by campaigning against poverty and disease, particularly in Africa. Massive benefit concerts, high-level political access, and relentless media praise turned him into a symbol of moral authority.
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