The website in question is climatecosmos.com, which as @maggiek.bsky.social points out had a content partnership with MSN. The website lists its owner as NextVision Media UG, a German firm. Let's keep that on the back burner for now.
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Thanks for looking into this, I have been wondering the same thing. The site is just disgusting.
mar 25, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
The website's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/climatecosmos) says that it is controlled by an outfit called Animals Around the Globe GmBh, which is a publication all its own: www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com
feb 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 4 0 • view
The CEO and cofounder of Animals Around the Globe is a German fellow named Jan Otte, who seems keen to invest in a variety of online publishing and media firms through his company Otte Ventures GmbH. www.linkedin.com/in/janotte21...
feb 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Animals Around the Globe (AATG) seems to own and operate a variety of English-language websites, including: discoverwildscience.com felinefam.com doggodigest.com futureristics.com/about/ weather-fox.com
feb 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 3 0 • view
OK, so let's see if everything aligns here by checking the German ownership records of NextVision Media UG, the company that owns climatecosmos.com. Turns out, we can do just that thanks to this German company register: www.unternehmensregister.de/ureg/registe...
feb 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 3 0 • view
As it turns out, Otte Ventures is a shareholder of NextVision Media UG, along with a Munich resident named Matthias Binder and an Augsburg resident named Marcel Kuhn.
feb 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 5 1 • view
So there you have it: the German media entrepreneur Jan Otte appears to be one of the folks behind climatecosmos.com.
feb 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 5 0 • view
Can this possibly be the same person? www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...
apr 2, 2025, 4:14 am • 1 0 • view
Weather Fox is another brand owned by Animals Around the Globe GmbH, of which Jan Otte is CEO. So yes.
apr 2, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
What's interesting is that it's not a contrarian take at all, arguably just the opposite. Which makes this all even weirder.
apr 2, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure; I have a birth date for the Matthias Binder in the company registry documents but haven't published it (privacy).
feb 5, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view