"New Thought Police Newsguard is Owned by Big Pharma

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
January 24, 2020.

The media is using a variety of tactics to restrict your access to the truth from websites like mine, including Newsguard, a self-appointed internet watchdog that sells a browser plugin to rate websites on nine criterias of credibility and transparency. Before I delve further into Newsguard and its underlying agenda, its important to look at who funds it.

Newsguard received much of its startup funds from Publicis Groupe, a giant global communications group with divisions that brand imaging, design of digital business platforms, media relations and health care.

Publicis Groupe`s health subsidiary, Publicis Health, names Lilly, Abbot, Roche, Amgen, Genetech, Celgene, Gilead, Biogen, Astra Zeneca, Sanofi, Bayer and other Big Pharma giants as clients, which gives you an idea of where its loyalties lie.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has also awarded Publicis Media a healthy piece of business,and the communictions group responded by creating a custom "platform GSK" to run the drug giant`s media business.

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Newsguard Is the Latest "Truth Arbiter" to Deceive You

In other words, Newsguard is setting itself up as the self-appointed global arbiter of what information is "trustworthy" - based on nine self-described "credibility and transparency" - not only for information viewed for pay on private electronic devices, but also for information accessible for free in public libraries and schools."

Mercola.com.