publications supportive of industry positions." The University of Bath's Tobacco Control Research Group described the network as having a "longstanding funding relationship with the tobacco industry" and that it "appears to have played a particular role in helping the tobacco industry oppose tobacco control measures in Latin America." Le Monde identified 17 Atlas Network partners engaged in lobbying and advocacy for "tobacco harm reduction", which supports vaping as a substitute for smoking, with most of the partners receiving funds from the tobacco industry. Atlas Network is described as having close ties to oil and gas producers. It collaborated with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in a push for oil and gas development on Indigenous land, according to documents described in The Guardian. Atlas Network was noted by The Intercept and The Guardian for links to right-wing and conservative movements, including the administration of Donald Trump in the United States, Brexit in the United Kingdom, and anti-government protests in Latin America. According to The Guardian, "Atlas took no position on Brexit itself, and many of its European partners were opposed, but directors of UK groups in the network were prominent in the official campaign to take Britain out of the EU." Disinformation expert Julián Macías Tovar told The Guardian that the Atlas Network was in part responsible for an online propaganda campaign against the Cuban government during the 2021 Cuban protests. The Guardian stated that the Atlas Network had been involved in bot or troll centre campaigns during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, the 2021 Ecuadorian general election, and the 2021 Peruvian general election. Leadership The chief executive officer of Atlas Network is Brad Lips. Lips joined Atlas Network, then known as Atlas Economic Research Foundation, in 1998 and became CEO in 2009. He is the author of Liberalism and the Free Society in 2021. He has said he advocates for a "freedom philosophy", and summarized Altas Network's function as "to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable". Matt Warner is the organization's president, while Tom G. Palmer serves as executive vice president for international programs. Warner and Palmer co-authored the book Development with Dignity: Self-Determination, Localization, and the End of Poverty. Palmer, known in libertarian circles since the 1970s, has promoted libertarian efforts in various countries including communist and post-communist Eastern Europe, Iraq and Afghanistan; after the 2022 Russian invasion, he traveled