Astroturfing

Here at The Truth About Guns, we communicate a pro-gun, informative message. Obviously we draw a lot of The People of the Gun as our readership. We also attract readers who don’t share our love of things that go bang, and that’s OK, too. Maybe they’ll learn s…

Never Again Action bears all the signs of movement hijacking by anti-Israel activists with pre-existing and current relationships who saw an opportunity to position themselves within a broader movement.Over the past several months, Never Again Action (NAA), a…

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 3:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz And remember that proprietary GitHub is… ‘openness’? Summary: The term “Open Source” faces extinction by meaninglessness — a subject if not a taboo topic that s…

One great irony of the World Wide Web is that the wonder of “information at our fingertips” brings with it various challenges, including fake news, astroturfing, cyber bullying, and the rapid proliferation of bad news. The latter, at least, is not so much abo…

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, Marketing at 11:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Amusing only for marketing departments, which don’t understand technical issues and probably cannot properly and coherently define even their own catchphrases Summary: We…

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, Google, IBM, Microsoft at 1:48 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: We’re supposed to be feeling joyous and victorious because — good news, everybody! — even all the technology giants are nowadays claiming to have ‘ope…

Posted in Deception, DRM, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Google, Kernel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Vista, Windows at 7:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Welcome to ‘Linux Vista’ and Open-for-business Source (for some parts, for the openwashing factor) Summary: Free/O…

PETALING JAYA: Maria Ressa, the chief executive officer and executive editor of the Philippines-based news organisation Rappler, has been recognised as the Fellows of the Society by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Maria was among the four jour…

When President Donald Trump arrived in western Pennsylvania this month to give a speech about energy policy at a Royal Dutch Shell plant, he had a ready-made audience comprised of workers who, it turns out, were paid to be there. The company suggested that th…

Fair warning. I am about to speak very ill of the dead. David Koch went to his eternal barbecue spit on Friday. Except for his surviving brother, Charles, no man had a worse effect on American politics since the death of John C. Calhoun. Every malignancy curr…