4 days ago by Robert Colvile

This week, a group called Just Economics released a report claiming that the British rail system is the worst in Europe for fares, efficiency and comfort. No surprise there, you might say. But what few people spotted was that the report – carried out by a small firm that specialises in evaluating "s ...

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25 days ago by Dimitris Kalogeropoulos

Η κυριολεκτική σημασία της λέξης « astroturf» είναι το τεχνητό γρασιδί που υπάρχει στα γήπεδα και χαρακτηρίζεται από το έντονο πράσινο χρώμα του. Όμως, η λέξη «astroturfing» ουδεμία σχέση έχει με τα γήπεδα, το γρασίδι ή το πράσινο χρώμα. Πρόκειται για έναν όρο που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για πρώτη φορά το 1 ...

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36 days ago by Zachary Shahan

If only they were so honest. But, when the oil company and its shills can’t be, a grassroots effort to reveal them can be. Following up on the video at the bottom of the page, where a climate activist punked a fossil fuel astroturfing campaign, here’s a video from Greenpeace’s Polluter Watch campaig ...

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43 days ago by Sue Basko, Lawyer for Music and Film

Fake Profiles Used for Spying, Cyberstalking, Crowdturfing, Site-fluffing by Sue Basko Fake profiles have long been used for things such as spying on ex-friends and voting for a favorite band. Now fake profiles have stepped up to doing real work for real pay for the masters who control them. I was r ...

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50 days ago by Zachary Shahan

Greenpeace activist and researcher decides to change the script on a fossil fuel astroturfing campaign/commercial. Check it out: Here’s a little bit from the activist, Connor Gibson, in text too: If you had the chance to talk to Big Oil directly to its big oily face, what would you want to say? I re ...

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53 days ago by John Deans

Posted on Behalf of Connor Gibson, Greenpeace Activist. If you had the chance to talk to Big Oil directly to its big oily face, what would you want to say? I recently had such a chance at a commercial shoot run by the American Petroleum Institute, the major lobbying and public relations front for th ...

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64 days ago by Miranda Neubauer

Russian social media network Vkontakte.ru refused a request from the Russian Federal Security Service to block online activities of opposition groups in the aftermath of the country's controversial parliamentary elections, Dow Jones reported: read more

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73 days ago by Eric Silver

77% of online shoppers use user reviews and ratings while making purchases online. This means that companies increasingly rely on positive online user reviews to make money. Enter, astroturfing. “Astroturfing” is a play on the idea of a grassroots movement. In this case, instead of people supporting ...

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116 days ago by coms225

ON PR Edward Bernays on Propaganda and Public Relations (WorldNews), video clips http://wn.com/_Edward_Bernays__on_Propaganda_and_Public_Relations_ Stuart Ewen interview. Ewen is the author of PR! A Social History of Spin (Basic Books, 1996). http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/ewentext.html ...

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116 days ago by Thomas Pleil

Hinter vorgehaltener Hand wird ja immer wieder mal zugegeben, dass es schon Möglichkeiten gebe, ein bisschen Leben auf die Facebookseite eines Unternehmens zu bringen. Und selbst in Redaktionen werden Journalisten gelegentlich mal angehalten, doch den ersten Kommentar unter den so toll recherchierte ...

Das Textdepot - thomaspleil.wordpress.com · Rank: 32,020 · 206 references