Astroturfing

Tug of war over data stock photo from fandijki/Shutterstock.Imagine if, in the future, you rent an electric scooter, Uber or Lyft ride, or a little further in the future, an autonomous car. Imagine if your city can help your trip happen more smoothly by sending your vehicle information about road…

The United States is at a critical moment in the COVID-crisis. This week, the nation is likely to surpass 100,000 deaths and new hotspots in the south and midwest are developing. Forty-two states have either started “reopening” their economies or imminently plan to do so without putting in place essential…

This post is pure journalism. Thanks for the roundup, and it's amazing to me always how the world has weird corners with weird things happening that I don't intersect with at all. Great post!posted by hippybear at 12:47 PM on May 18 Something that's worth noting is the particular angle…

Graphs show which US states are seeing COVID-19 cases increasing or decreasing. See also: Where coronavirus hospitalizations are rising and falling. This week the Senate came within one vote of upending part of the Patriot Act's warrantless browser spying. With work-based health coverage taking a hit, America's biggest insurer has…

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Subscribe to the FREE #1 Natural Health Newsletter Story at-a-glance - The Rockefeller Foundation’s white paper, “National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan” lays out a strategic framework that is clearly intended to become part of a permanent surveillance and social control structure that severely limits personal liberty and freedom of choice…

Just when things seemed to be turning a corner into a slightly more optimistic future, The New York Times broke the news that "private" forecasts provided by the Centers for Disease Control to the White House show a startling, distressing road ahead: 200,000 new COVID-19 infections a day in the…

tech Coronavirus Now Brad Lee Butcher is selling T-shirts. Posted on May 7, 2020, at 2:59 p.m. ET Last month, a man from Florida purchased several domains associated with the nationwide anti-lockdown protests during the coronavirus pandemic, which he planned to use to raise money for the protesters. But he…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Shopping without a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t recommended by health experts, but that’s exactly what a midstate lawmaker said he did recently in a Facebook post. State Representative Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) calls the resulting backlash from that post an organized effort by leftist groups…

Simon Chandler writes on Forbes: Gun advocacy and conservative groups are responsible for astroturfing the reopen America campaign that has swept the US in recent days, according to research from cybersecurity experts. Since April 15, protests against coronavirus lockdown measures have been sweeping across various American states. Informally unified under…