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That's what it says, for example, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer would be 80 percent of the salary of the American CNN presenter Anderson Pay Cooper. ## Evaluation There is no evidence that the majority of Cooper's salary comes from Pfizer is paid - neither directly nor indirectly. ## Facts The claim was first spread by Robert F. Kennedy, who was a Democrat wants to run for the US presidential election in 2024 - Kennedy was in the past Years as a conspiracy theorist, especially around the corona pandemic noticed. The nephew of former US President John F. Kennedy raged again and again against large pharmaceutical companies. The claims in the Facebook post come from Kennedy's responses in an interview with the podcaster and YouTuber Brian Rose, the Corona likes to offer conspirators a platform. On October 2, 2022, Kennedy spoke about, among other things, on the “London Real” channel CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. Pharmaceutical companies would have them by far highest advertising expenditure on US television, especially in the evenings Newscasts. The largest ad spend by company in US television came in 2021 However, from the consumer goods group Procter & Gamble, the Internet giant Amazon and the widespread multinational Berkshire Hathaway, run by Warren Buffet is directed. In terms of categories, “Life and Entertainment” was ranked with almost that double editions of the second-placed category “Pharmaceuticals and Medical devices” at the front. Kennedy spreads unsubstantiated claims As an example of the power that big pharmaceutical companies have through their advertising spending would exert on the media, Kennedy also called Cooper's alleged Annual salary. “Anderson Cooper earns twelve million (US dollars, note) per Year. Ten million of them come from Pfizer,” explained Kennedy. For that should the journalist blatantly advertises Pfizer's products. Kennedy called no sources for his claim. When asked by Politifact and the Associated Press, Kennedys responded Campaign team for the primary election for the 2024 presidential election campaign congruent. His statement is not literal, but rather symbolically as a criticism of the high TV advertising expenditure of large pharmaceutical companies to understand. Pfizer is here as a placeholder for the entire pharmaceutical industry been called. However, Kennedy's team stuck to the false claim to AP, 80 Percent of all advertising revenue from TV stations comes from “Big Pharma”. For this reason Ten of Cooper's twelve million salary would also have been in the pharmaceutical industry their origin. When asked, AP was unable to provide a source for TV statistics. Advertising revenue in the USA is mentioned. CNN called Kennedy's claims to Politifact "fabricated and false." The broadcaster did not provide any information about Cooper's salary to the AP Politifact. However, one claim from the posting turns out to be correct: Pfizer invested around 22.7 million euros in research and research in Austria in 2021 Development. The list of “financial benefits to medical professionals and Institutions” the company disclosed in its 2021 transparency report. (As of: June 28, 23) ## Links Post (archived) Article “Time” on Kennedy’s application (archived) Article “Frankfurter Rundschau” about Kennedy (archived) Kennedy in conversation with Rose (video archived) Article about Rose on “Vice” (archived) Fact check from “Politifact” (archived) Fact check by «Associated Press» (archived) US TV ad spending statistics (archived) US TV advertising spending by category (archived) Pfizer Austria on transparency (archived) Pfizer Transparency Report 2021 (archived) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. Find detailed information about this program You here. 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Pfizer sponsors CNN anchor Anderson Cooper with 10 million