"fauxlanthropist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009 February 21, Marina Hyde, “Thanks for the philanthropy, billionaires. Now pay your tax”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Even a man of Stanford's preposterous bluster would struggle to explain how enabling tax dodging has anything to do with giving a toss about other people. He and his ilk are fauxlanthropists. If governments are brave enough, the real philanthropy should begin now.",
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          "ref": "2010, Brian Griffin, The Trustafarian Handbook: A Field Guide to the Neo-Hippie Lifestyle - Funded by Mom and Dad, page 51:",
          "text": "Young kids get sick a lot and it is often really sad. Fauxlanthropists are not immune to that pathos. From visiting those tormented tots in the hospital wing named after their grandfathers to throwing some sort of wonderful wheelchair prom, there are plenty of fun and relatively hands-off ways to help.",
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          "ref": "2024, Kai Syng Tan, Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership: An A-Z Towards Collective Liberation, page 51:",
          "text": "Let's escalate (fecal) matters: Apart from lording over (social) media, supply chains, the cloud and governments, or openly maiming and murdering the Poor, the hyper-mobile 'Fauxlanthropists' are colonising the low earth orbit, mars, moon and more, although there's already 'no more space'.",
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