Astroturfing

Han Kuo-yu is refusing to disappear. The polarizing mayor of Kaohsiung, Taiwans largest southern city, sauntered north to Taipei last weekend to greet reportedly hundreds of thousands of rabid supporters rallying in the heavy rain. Never mind that Han has not…

Anti-Trump California billionaire Tom Steyer leads the Need to Impeach “movement,” and Next Gen America political group. ABC wasn’t honest enough to make that clear for readers on June 1. Instead, the network misled them by making it sound like two grassroot…

Hi, I'm the author and sole maintainer of RTV (https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv). This is an official announcement that I will no longer be maintaining this project. Why? Lately, RTV has stopped being fun for me to work on. I suspect this is the typica…

Just a week after Chevron announced a plan to install electric vehicle (EV) chargers at some California gas stations, it has been revealed that one of the company’s lobbyists has been pushing a secret effort to block charging stations in Arizona. Marian Cate…

Sneaky Stuff In March, Arizona proposed a rule requiring utility companies to build public charging stations for electric cars. In response, the states Corporation Commission received what the Arizona Republic described as a handful of form letters opposing …

One of the many ugly aspects of the Article 13/17 disaster is the way that politicians not only ignored the concerns of millions of EU citizens, but actively insulted them, describing them as "bots" or Google "astroturfing". As Mike noted at the time, treatin…

from the doof-doof-doof dept One of the many ugly aspects of the Article 13/17 disaster is the way that politicians not only ignored the concerns of millions of EU citizens, but actively insulted them, describing them as "bots" or Google "astroturfing". As M…

Clean PowerPublished on May 29th, 2019 | by Jennifer Sensiba 0 May 29th, 2019 by Jennifer Sensiba  Recently, Tesla confirmed to media outlets that Dave Arnold is leaving as Director of Communications. Not much has been said, but its a difficult job that …

Oil and gas company Chevron recently announced that it’s bringing electric vehicle chargers to its gas stations meanwhile, one of its lobbyists is spurring a fight against EV infrastructure in Arizona. A Chevron lobbyist is persuading retirees of the company…

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