Front group

Front group  (organisation)
Spooky activities occur behind closed doors under the cover of a front group.

Wikipedia

A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, secret societies, runaway slaves, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations. Front organizations can act for the parent group without the actions being attributed to the parent group thereby allowing them to hide from public view.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Center for Countering Digital Hate	Front group to coordinate internet censorship, i.e. to "deplatform"/"demonetize"/shadow ban dissident opinion on YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, Paypal etc.
Coalition for Democracy in Iran	Front group
Covid Action UK	A British campaign group. Associates are experts on "conspiracy theorists", "anti-vaxxer misinformation"
Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation	Front group set up by the European Commission in 2006.
Independent SAGE
Lincoln Project	Neocon Anti Trump organisation.
Media Diversity Institute	Founded in February 2019 with a style and choice of main partners that look remarkably like the Integrity Initiative.
Otpor!	Expert in astroturf colour revolution s
People's Vote	UK campaign group against Brexit
Sierra Club	Front group for the WWF, 1001 Club, Club of Rome and similar misanthropic Population reductionists
Swaledale Mutton	Suspected British intelligence front, using numerous personas to troll Twitter (X) accounts of dissidents, to dilute and debase the discussion, and to drive them off the platform.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights	A UK-based information office that has focused since 2011 on the Syrian civil war and is frequently quoted by major Western news media.
The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army	Improbable militia presumably a propaganda exercise to create support for war in the Western liberal opinion.
United States Committee for a Free Lebanon	Neocon/Israeli front group lobbying to make US government intervene in Lebanon, also military.
Vaccine Confidence Project	Big Pharma front group founded in 2010.
Voice of America	US International public broadcaster

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Coca-Cola	“As part of its corporate propaganda campaign to deflect public attention away from the harmful health effects of its sugary drinks, the Coca-Cola Company has funded front organizations. The company funded creation of the front organization the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) to address the growing evidence that the company's products are a leading cause of the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States and the growing number of Americans, including children, with type 2 diabetes. GEBN designed its own studies to arrive at conclusions set in advance and cherry picked data to support its corporate public relations agenda. After an August 2015 investigative report exposed the GEBN as a Coca-Cola Company front organization, GEBN was shut down.<a href="#cite_note-Clifford_D._Conner_2020_pp._14-16-3">[3]</a> Three years after the shutdown of GEBN, the company, together with several other junk food giants, was revealed to be behind an initiative in China called "Happy 10 Minutes," funded through a group called the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI). The aim of the initiative was to address decades of research on diet-related diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes and hypertension, by promoting physical exercise to the population but avoiding discussion of the link between such diseases and junk foods, including sugary drinks.<a href="#cite_note-Clifford_D._Conner_2020_pp._14-16-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> ILSI through the 1980s and 1990s had been promoting the tobacco industry's agenda in Europe and the United States.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a>”	Wikipedia	2023

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