Astroturfing

The head of the Trump administration’s patent and trademark office is the featured speaker at a fundraiser for a right-wing group — an event sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that have business with the agency. Andre Iancu, director of the U.S. Patent an…

In today’s EGEB: An analyst thinks solar will be cheaper than natural gas almost everywhere in four years. A look at the astroturfing efforts of utilities. The German onshore wind industry is facing a “collapse.” Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily techn…

(NATSUKADO / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. In October 2017, a crowd of 85-odd people filed into a meeting of …

What is the greatest threat facing human civilization? This question is obviously meant to be provocative, and is probably inherently unanswerable. But I think there is a reasonable argument to be made that perhaps the greatest threat is the deterioration of …

The New Orleans City Councils utility advisers are recommending a $1.5 million to $2 million fine against Entergy New Orleans for failing to adequately maintain the citys aging electrical distribution system the poles and wires that run down New Orleans stree…

Posted May 11, 2019 06:17:34 Social media experts have questioned Facebook's attempts to bolster the accountability and transparency of political content in the current federal election campaign. Key points: Facebook says it removed "coordinated inauthen…

Cesare Maccari In this 2007 book, Halting State, Charles Stross describes a near future in which the internet makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for ordinary people to properly attribute communications and events. Warning: this…

Tamara NassarActivism and BDS Beat1 May 2019 Thousands have signed a petition calling on Irelands representative Sarah McTernan to withdraw from this months Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. RTÉ 2019Lili Forberg An Israeli government-backed propaganda i…

SAN FRANCISCO Though the line of people snaking outside the Irish Cultural Center late Sunday morning kept growing, few Beto 2020 shirts could be spotted in the crowd. Democratic presidential candidate Beto ORourke was making his first appearance in famously…

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rouke made a campaign speech Tuesday before a crowd of Penn State University students, promising a grassroots campaign and taking tough questions from the audience. (March 19) AP SAN FRANCISCO Though the line of peopl…