No, it is there due to NASDAQ allowing 3rd parties, many of whom have conflicts of interest, to post whatever they damn well please on their website without any vetting or review for accuracy.
I never thought it was possible, but NASDAQ is quickly becoming as bad as OTCMarkets in a lot of ways.
NASDAQ needs to learn what Forbes, Fortune, IBD and Seeking Alpha already learned the hard way. You just can't allow unrelated 3rd parties to post unreviewed garbage on your website, as they will use it for stock promotion (of questionable legality).
No doubt that is what this opinion piece is all about. And NASDAQ's half-assed disclaimer which is long PAST the end of the article, and likely to be seen by almost no one, and completely ignored by the rest, isn't going to stop the stock pump that will absolutely occur from ignorant investors assuming this opinion piece has some kind of factual merit by it being published by NASDAQ.