Astroturfing

Cyber Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities Returning rogue weather app continues mobile ad fraud(Telemedia Online) A weather app from Chinese company TCL Communications has once again been caught making digital purchases of premium services without the know…

September 21, 2019: In mid-August 2019 Twitter and Facebook announced that they had shut down hundreds of accounts that were being used by China to spread false and disparaging news about the millions of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. Twitter reve…

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For years, top ATT Lobbyist Jim Cicconi was the man that drove much of the telco's controversial policy apparatus, most recently the company's successful quest to kill net neutrality and effectively neuter the FCC. Cicconi's charm was frequently on display in…

from the pressing-legislative-agenda dept For years, top AT&T Lobbyist Jim Cicconi was the man that drove much of the telco's controversial policy apparatus, most recently the company's successful quest to kill net neutrality and effectively neuter the F…

A 2016 study of tobacco industry email marketing by the Association of Nonsmokers-Minnesota and ClearWay Minnesota found that tobacco companies cross-promoted other products and causes to those in their email marketing databases. People in their study who had…

Earlier today, Facebook announced it had terminated multiple accounts, pages, and groups belonging to two campaigns targeting voters in Iraq and Ukraine. The move is part of the social giants crackdown on inauthentic behavior. In Iraq, Facebook removed 76 ac…

A new tool in the fight against online disinformation has been launched, called BotSlayer, developed by the Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media. The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect eviden…

There’s a new tool in the fight against online disinformation called BotSlayer. The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect evidence of automated Twitter accountsor “bots”pushing messages in a coordinated man…

Same Amazon.com that banned cancer cure documentaries now all in with Big Pharma's toxic cancer "treatments" via its new "Go Gold" astroturfing campaign