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Title: The Web of Players Trying to Silence Truth
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URL Source: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/ ... 021/10/05/publicis-groupe.aspx
Published: Oct 5, 2021
Author: Dr. Joseph Mercola
Post Date: 2021-10-05 07:20:10 by BTP Holdings
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The Web of Players Trying to Silence Truth

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

October 05, 2021

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

> The Publicis Groupe, a leading worldwide PR firm, represents major companies within the technology, pharmaceutical and banking industries. These companies, in turn, have various partnerships with the U.S. government and global nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
> Publicis is a partner of the World Economic Forum, which is leading the call for a “reset” of the global economy and a complete overhaul of our way of life. As such, Publicis appears to be playing an important role, coordinating the suppression of information that runs counter to the technocratic narrative
> The role of the free press is to counter industry propaganda. That role has been effectively subverted through advertising. News outlets rarely report on something that might damage their advertisers
> Publicis connects to the drug industry, banking industry, NewsGuard/HealthGuard, educational institutions, Big Tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Bing, the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense, global technocratic institutions like the World Health Organization, national and global NGOs like the CCDH and the World Economic Forum, and dominates health websites like WebMD and Medscape
> These connections, taken together, explain how certain views can be so effectively erased. The answer to this dilemma is transparency. We must expose the machinations that allow this agenda to be pushed forward

This article was previously published February 16, 2021, and has been updated with new information.

Any strategy that successfully manipulates public opinion is bound to be repeated, and we can now clearly see how the tobacco industry's playbook is being used to shape the public narrative about COVID-19 and the projected post-COVID era.

In 2011, after many years of raising awareness regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and industrial agriculture, we decided we needed a new game plan. Educating people through our newsletter was great, but we realized the best way to expose Monsanto — a leading GMO advocate and patented seed owner at the time — was to get them to engage directly and ensure national attention.

To that end, Mercola.com funded the signature gathering in California that initiated Proposition 37, the right to know what's in your food by ensuring proper GMO labeling. We spent more than $1 million for the Prop 37 initiative, plus several million dollars more for GMO labeling initiatives in other U.S. states in the following years.

This initiative forced Monsanto to engage with the public directly to defend their toxic products and dangerous business practices, all while receiving national coverage in the process.

The Monsanto Case Monsanto spent tens of millions of dollars attacking anyone in their way, but they did so indirectly, just like the tobacco industry did before them. This is the core take-home of what I'm about to describe next.

They used a public relations team to do most of their dirty work — paying scientists and academics to voice their "independent opinions," influencing scientific journals, and getting journalists and editorial boards to write favorable and influential pieces to help them maintain their lies and influence minds.

Still, while the spending of tens of millions of dollars to influence voters resulted in a narrow defeat of Prop 37, the new, widespread awareness of GMOs, pesticides and industrial agriculture eventually led to Monsanto's demise.

In 2013, in a last-ditch effort to salvage its tarnished image, Monsanto hired the PR firm Ketchum. As noted in a HuffPost article by Paul Thacker,1 "Monsanto hit reboot with Ketchum," which "created a campaign called GMO Answers — a group2 of 200 experts charged with doing a better job at answering your questions about GMOs — and used social media and third-party scientists to offer a counter narrative to allay concern about Monsanto's products."

The GMO Answers' website3 is set up to allow professors at public universities to answer GMO questions from the public — supposedly without remuneration from the industry. But over the years, evidence emerged showing that these academics are far from independent, and often end up getting paid for their contributions via hidden means, such as unrestricted grants.

University of Florida professor Kevin Folta is one prominent example of an academic who misled the public by promoting GMOs while not disclosing he accepted money from Monsanto to the tune of $25,000.4 I've written about this before, but so has The New York Times,5 in 2015, when they detailed Folta's activities with Monsanto.

Folta sued the Times for defamation, claiming he had "never received" the unrestricted funds they talked about, but subsequent documentation showed that Monsanto had indeed given the money to Folta. The suit was dismissed in 2019 in a Florida U.S. District Court.6

In another breach of transparency, GMO Answers co-sponsored a panel discussion with the media and partnerships division of Scientific American in March 2016 to discuss whether science was being fairly represented by the media.7

At the time, Jeremy Abatte, vice president and publisher of Scientific American, insisted the event was not a Ketchum event, but a Scientific American event, even though GMO Answers is a Ketchum-sponsored project.8 Few bought his reasoning, though, and many ended up filing Scientific American into the chemical biotech shill category.

Having purchased Monsanto at the end of 2016, Bayer continued the strategy to rely on PR firms for public acceptance. In the article9 "Bayer's Shady PR Firms: Fleishmanhillard, Ketchum, FTI Consulting," U.S. Right to Know reviews the many deception scandals involving these firms. A key discovery was evidence showing "there are objective strategies to silence strong voices."

After investigating the strategies used by Monsanto and Bayer, we can now see that the same playbook is being used by Big Tech and Big Pharma to shape the public narratives about COVID-19 and The Great Reset. Again, a central facet of these campaigns is to silence critics, in particular those with large online followings, including yours truly.

I have been publicly labeled a "national security threat"10 to the U.K. by Imran Ahmed, a member of the Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force under the British government's Commission for Countering Extremism and the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).

According to Ahmed, I and others who question the safety and necessity of a COVID-19 vaccine may be prone to violent extremism. This defamatory statement clearly has no basis in reality whatsoever. Rather, it's part of the propaganda aimed at destroying the opposition — in this case the opposition to the technocrats driving The Great Reset agenda,11 which spans across social, economic and health related sectors.

As reported by the National Vaccine Information Center, which was also on the CCDH list of national security threats:12

"The anonymously funded CCDH also has an office in Washington, D.C. and the defamatory publicity campaign created in December 2020 was designed to not only discredit NVIC's four-decade public record of working within the U.S. democratic system to secure vaccine safety and informed consent protections in public health policies and laws, but to destroy our small charity."

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