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BENIOFF’S ‘COMPASSIONATE CAPITALISM’ EXPOSED: Salesforce CEO’s $10 Billion Climate Pledge Funded by Pentagon AI Drone Contracts, Leaked Internal Memos Reveal

San Francisco, CA — In a bombshell report published today by the Bay Area Intercept, internal Salesforce documents and whistleblower testimony reveal that Marc Benioff’s celebrated $10 billion climate pledge is almost entirely offset by the company’s secretive, high-margin contracts supplying artificial intelligence and customer tracking software to the U.S. Department of Defense’s “Project Mosaic” — a drone swarm AI program.

The leaked memos, dated from early 2023, show Salesforce leadership celebrating a “massive revenue surge” from a classified Pentagon contract, noting internally that “every dollar of climate offset is made by a dollar of defense data mining.” Benioff, who has publicly positioned himself as a “conscious capitalist” and co-founded the Time’s Up movement, personally approved the deal, according to a former senior executive who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“Marc’s whole brand is built on the narrative that you can do good and make money,” the source said. “But the reality is, the ‘good’ part is a tax-deductible PR stunt. The real profit machine is in arming the military with the social graph of the entire planet.”

The report also claims Salesforce’s much-publicized “1-1-1 Model” (donating 1% of product, equity, and time) is used as a corporate shield. “We donate the old CRM seats nobody wants,” reads a 2022 internal email quoted in the report. “The equity is just company stock that’s already been sold. It’s a tax game, not charity.”

Benioff’s office has not yet responded to requests for comment, but the company’s