NewsGuard Partner & Investor Publicis Pays $350 Million for Perpetrating Opioid Epidemic
When The Media Says "Experts" They Mean Paid Corporate Shills (Part 27)
You can catch wind of this fact via any MSM outlet. The reason for including it in this series is not only because I’ve covered the “experts” who shilled for Purdue Pharma and other opioid makers at the expense of the public in prior posts, it is also because Publicis is a major investor in NewsGuard (listed #3 out of 27) and formed a partnership with them in 2021 on their “public service” campaign VaxFacts to repress any criticism of modRNA products and their mandated consumption in search results which Publicis and NewsGuard deem to be “misinformation.” Ironically, Publicis was a superspreader of actual misinformation at the behest of Purdue Pharma and other opioid makers during the still ongoing opioid crisis that according to the CDC claimed 645,000 lives over 2 decades. Despite not admitting any wrongdoing or liability for wrongdoing as part of their settlement with all 50 states, Publicis was at the forefront of Oxycodone PR campaigns receiving $50 million from Purdue Ltd. between 2010 and 2019 to convince doctors to write more Oxycodone prescriptions at higher doses while downplaying the addiction risks and continued to do so even after sharing their moral epiphany with their client in 2016 when the carnage was undeniable.
Publicis did not invest in and partner with NewsGuard because they’re concerned about the public knowing the truth, but because they perceived a threat to their class interests. The inconvenient truth about so-called fact checkers, “misinformation” experts, and their financial backers, is that their objective isn’t truth but protecting global capitalism and its profits. “Misinformation” under a global capitalist neo-liberal paradigm is any information that undermines the public’s blind faith in global capitalists and their products, particularly those in the Pharma industry, and sparks any inkling of class consciousness. That is why both CISA and GDI include ‘undermining trust in institutions’ in their operational definitions. Realizing that you don’t have the same class interests as the jet setting billionaires and corporate executives that fly to Davos every January with their bureaucrat and politician lackeys in tow is the beginning of the end of your trust in the institutions they control.