The Fundamentals of Fifth Generation Warfare: One year on from | NZDSOS

The Fundamentals of Fifth Generation Warfare:
One year on from being approached by fact checking service NewsGuard, we have again been contacted.

NewsGuard, a for-profit fact-checking organization backed by Big Pharma, Big Tech, the teachers union and the U.S. government, has set itself up as the self-appointed global arbiter of what information is “trustworthy.”

Predictably, powerful conflicts of interest are revealed, including Newsguard’s largest corporate investor Publicis Groupe, a World Economic Forum partner representing most major drug companies and tech firms, and using NewsGuard to blacklist competitors.

The strategies used by NewsGuard staff, who believe, “if it is not endorsed by the World Health Organization [WHO], it is not true".

This is a curious disclosure given the frameworks WHO and their partners are attempting to build with a focus on becoming the global arbiters of truth.
Censorship and information control have been written into mainstream media and health service policy in recent years. We have outlined the historical precedents to this in previous articles.

Collusions between government and mainstream media such as New Zealand’s $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund, the Ministry of Health’s Disinformation Assessment and Response Team (DART) and the Disinformation Project ensure an accredited perspective is fed relentlessly to the public from a compliant workforce.

It is not unusual for NZDSOS to be approached by paid smear campaigners who claim to be “fact checking” medical information.

Instead of engaging in healthy information exchange, these staffers who rarely if ever have any health related background, merely write hit-pieces.


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