Astroturfing

One of the things that's becoming increasingly clear as Bloomberg has emerged from behind his gauzy commercials is the fact that he's not a likable person.  From the rarefied heights of his multi-billionaire status, he speaks about ordinary people in dismissive terms and apparently was a beast to women.  At the debate,…

Amici urge Court to reject Google's attempt to weaken copyright protection in the United StatesREDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A wide array of individuals and organizations from across technology, arts and culture, government, advocacy, and academia filed amicus briefs this week supporting Oracle in the Supreme Court. This…

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A wide array of individuals and organizations from across technology, arts and culture, government, advocacy, and academia filed amicus briefs this week supporting Oracle in the Supreme Court. This diverse group is speaking out to defend copyright protection and to reject Google's attempts…

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This piece was originally published on February 14 and has been updated to include a comment from SoCalGas. To stay in line with the targets laid out in the Paris climate agreement, the US needs to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, known as “deep decarbonization.” Virtually every credible study…

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February 10, 2020: China recently discovered how astroturfing, creating fake “grassroots” support, loses its impact when the deception aspect is revealed. A recent example (late January 2020) occurred outside a western Canada (Vancouver) courthouse as demonstrators assembled to protest efforts to extradite a Chinese telecommunications executive. This was a big…

CHINESE ASTROTURF: Narrative fail in Canada. China recently discovered how astroturfing, creating fake “grassroots” support, loses its impact when the deception aspect is revealed. A recent example (late January 2020) occurred outside a western Canada (Vancouver) courthouse as demonstrators assembled to protest efforts to extradite a Chinese telecommunications executive. This…

“I think there’s kind of an eagerness to take substantive political issues and reduce them to: ‘this is a bot.’” I have David Berman, co-author of the upcoming book After Net Neutrality: A New Deal for the Digital Age, on the line, who spent the course of the 2016 election…

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaborationThe world has known about the dangers of climate change for decades — so why are oil and gas companies still drilling for crude as if there’s no tomorrow? There’s no simple answer. But…