Mobil Oil, now part of ExxonMobil, helped pioneer
 the idea of corporations as citizen-like entities with free speech 
rights in an effort to revive their reputation back in the 1970s. Exxon 
and Mobil backed other corporations’
 First Amendment lawsuits, arguing that companies should be free to 
express their views on “matters of public concern,” including climate 
change. In Supreme Court cases like First National Bank v. Bellotti and Citizens United v. FEC, the idea of corporate free speech was expanded to usher in nearly unlimited corporate money in politics.
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