Astroturfing

Submission + - Facebook Caught Astroturfing in Teen Vogue (businessinsider.com) Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:41PM An anonymous reader writes: Teen Vogue published “How Facebook Is Helping Ensure the Integrity of the 2020 Election.” It’s a 2,000-plus-word story comprising a series of interviews with various senior…

The reputation management industry has come a long way since the BIA Kelsey Group predicted that it would become a $5 billion industry sector by 2016. Indeed, there are more review management solutions, sentiment analysis monitoring services, and agencies eng…

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According to a recent report in The Hindu Business Line, Indias intelligence agencies are investigating the role of a global investment company and international seed companies in supporting farmers organisation Shetkari Sanghatana (SS) in the distribution of…

January 10th, 2020 by Steve Hanley  During the 2016 campaign, the Mouth That Roared repeatedly promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. Many people foolishly thought he meant the lobbyists, suck-ups, ass kissers, and finaglers who work behind the scenes …

False flag definition A false flag cyberattack is when a hacker or hacking group stages an attack in a way that attempts to fool their victims and the world about who's responsible or what their aims are. The techniques used in this type of attack run a gamu…

Skip to comments. Bloomberg sees California as model on climate change, gunsMiami Herald ^ | January 6, 2020 | By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, AP Posted on 01/07/2020 6:35:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer Mike Bloomberg's plan for California - export it. The Democr…

Microtask workers were employed to pump the visibility of a post made to the r/btc subreddit, screenshots reveal.Propaganda battle continues between two deeply oppositional groups in the cryptocurrency space.Bitcoins scaling debate c…

Meghan Murphy has exactly two possible explanations for my existence: I’m either lying; or I’m deluded. It must be said that in the months this post took to write, the moral panic against trans people has accelerated a breakneck pace. Maya Forstater made hea…

Annual Review of 2019: The State of the Empire at the End of a Decade This year marks the end of the second decade of the 21st-century, and as we enter the third decade one prediction seems to be warranted: the 2020s will see the most marked and unambiguous …