#CokeLeak

You may remember the surprise last year that Coca-Cola had paid health experts and university researchers to deflect blame about the health harms of soda. Upon further analysis of the payola list, we found that the majority of them…

A recent leak of Coca-Cola’s executive emails uncovered the February & March 2016 lobbying priorities for…

It’s now widely reported and known that the soda industry funds biased science in order to manufacture uncertainty and controversy about the negative health harms of soda. Following the tobacco industry’s playbook, studies funded by the soda industry routinely…

Coca-Cola has developed a system to fund and place industry-biased research in media about soda taxes. Select emails from the #CokeLeak of internal Coca-Cola executives showed how the company funds research to disparage the soda tax.

On June 9th, 2016 Ben Sheidler, a spokesman in Public Affairs & Communications for the Coca-Cola Company, emailed Coke’s global leadership team with background information and coordinated messages about the Philadelphia soda tax.