@japanskier I will not be surprised if in the near future some intrepid journalist discovers that these “#greenpeace activists” are actually an #astroturfing #propaganda front group financed by the #fossilfuels power industry.

No surprise at all.

They’ve done this before & they’ll do it again.

#astroturf #energy #oligarchy #energy #renewables #climatechange #globalheating

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/young-climate-activist-tells-greenpeace-to-drop-old-fashioned-anti-nuclear-stance

#Langford will take multiple generations to undo the environmental damages to that area. All their residents will be seeing increased taxes too & additional fees because their last ecocidal Mayor screwed stuff up so much - all their taxpayers will be on hooks for many generations to come. This is #astroturf in Langford. It's caused mass pollution & clogging up their waterways. Storm drains have clogged spots. Huge environmental disaster. This isn't progress.
#yyj #VictoriaBC #vanisle #PNW

Writing in *#TheAmericanProspect*, #LukeGoldstein unpacks an #astroturf campaign to save the endangered swipe fee from woke competition advocates:

https://prospect.org/power/2023-08-04-wall-street-culture-war-swipe-fee-reform/

Now, this campaign isn't particularly sophisticated. It goes like this: #Target is a big business that runs a lot of transactions through Visa/Mastercard, so it stands to benefit from competition in payment routing.

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ChatGPT gets it right on climate denialism

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/19/opinion/chatgpt-climate-denialism

“Climate denialism is dangerous because it can impede progress towards addressing the climate crisis, which is one of the most urgent and pressing issues facing our planet today.”…

“Some may have ideological, political or economic motivations to oppose action on climate change. For instance, some corporations and industries that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions may fear regulations or financial costs associated with reducing emissions.”

ChatGPT reveals an impressive “understanding” of the climate denialism movement, writes commentator Gerald Kutney.

#AI #climatedenialism #dangerous #crisis #economicmotivations #corporations #astroturf

#Astroturf latest (via @theferret)
https://mastodon.scot/@theferret/110683549736631623
theferret - Former Thatcher aide behind campaign to prevent ban on electric shock collars for dogs    

Ian Gregory has been running an alleged astroturf campaign lobbying governments to prevent a ban on the use of electric shock collars on dogs.    

https://theferret.scot/thatcher-aide-prevent-ban-electric-shock-collars/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=thatcher-aide-prevent-ban-electric-shock-collars

#KochMoney
#Astroturf

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/07/09/just-who-is-behind-moms-for-liberty-column/

The new Moms for Liberty recruitment posters are pretty scary.

#m4l #parody #gop #astroturf #fascists

How a network of ‘phony’ groups sprung up to fight Newsom’s oil regulations https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-oil-regulations-california-18156243.php #bigOil #astroturf #climateChange #gougingConsumers

Es turft schon wieder

Ein neues Plädoyer für Disposables ist da! Im Artikel Trau, schau wem! – oder: Wohin die Fäden führen… hatte ich über einen Beitrag von Martin Cullip geschrieben, der eindeutig pro Disposable war. Dabei verwies ich auch auf die Hintergründe und Verbindungen zu Big-T.

In dem damaligen Artikel von Cullip wurden Disposables nicht konkr

https://dampfdruck-presse.hu/2023/06/15/es-turft-schon-wieder/

#Kommentar #Markt #Astroturf #BigT #Disposables #Tabakindustrie

How right-wing billionaires make rotten sausage aka moral panics.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/conservative-mega-donors-coerce-anti-trans-politics

#uspol #crt #trans #politics #astroturf

WARNING: Many "russian" sites that advertise things like "PRIVATE" and "SECURE" go through CloudFlare.

#honeyPots #astroTurf #MITMaaS

https://share.transistor.fm/s/a525705f/transcript 

The #ShitShow: how #corporations and #politicians are allowed to proliferate #toxic #chemicals into nearly every corner of life and into our bodies, potentially #poisoning entire #generations and what can be done about this problem. #Astroturf and the deaths of several #professional #baseball players in #Philadelphia and these #foreverchemicals that are now apparently in everyone's bodies.

Lever News: #grass #SB499 #AB1423 #SB676 Vs #ChemicalHazards #glioblastoma #PFAS #Monsanto #DuPont  #DarkWaters #cancer #liability 

@ecosurrealism

What we are saying is CloudFlare, as a USA-based #dotcon that is supposedly helping to combat #cyberattacks, but has in fact been serving somes sites that pirate content. Why might that be?

These websites are often designed to look like Russian websites but would a real Russian really allow their website to be mass surveilled by the worst USA MITM Attack (CloudFlare) the world has seen? We doubt it.

See #astroturf, #frontGroup or #controlledOpposition for more.

@YorksBylines This is an appalling proposal. #ArtificialGrass is an abomination in small private gardens, but to cover hectares of ancient water meadow with this toxic stuff should be illegal. This latest example of public school arrogance must be opposed.
#ArtificialLawn #StPetersSchool #AstroTurf

📰 Did #PFAS in #astroturf contribute to or cause the brain #cancers of now-deceased #baseball players, all of whom played for the #Philadelphia #Phillies? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/10/phillies-ball-players-cancer-artifical-turf

Skepchick Rebecca Watson on twitter:
"Big Oil has a new tactic in the war on clean energy: pretending that wind farms are responsible for the deaths of humpback and right whales on the east coast. They aren't! This "save the whales" bullshit is probably going to be spreading beyond these East Coast seaside towns as Fox News picks it up. Don't fall for it."

#Astroturf #SaveTheWhales #NIMBY #WindFarms

https://youtu.be/O0dwD6ii1lc

Trying to get the hashtag #TuftyClub going whenever the #TaxpayersAlliance and other far right wing #astroturf lobbyists are in the news (many of them share the Taxpayers' Alliance address at 55 #TuftonStreet in Westminster- billionaire funded groups for Trussite crazy economics, climate change deniers, Brexiters and others (knowingly or unknowingly) doing #Putin's work of crippling the UK economy) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufton_Street

In retrograde #fuckery right here in KY.

‘Moms for Liberty’ gets three books removed from Campbell County school libraries https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/02/16/moms-for-liberty-gets-three-books-removed-from-campbell-county-school-libraries/

#PartyOfStupid #Christofascists #censorship #BannedBooks #astroturf #books #reading

@strypey
Do not underestimate the toxic impact of #politicalDonations and #foreignMeddling.

Last we checked, #NationBuilder is #CloudFlare, so there is a great value proposition in #DDoS'ing #politicalParties, and then swooping in to save the day.

Also many parties at least in #Australia appear to be #astroTurf that don't offer anything truely different and appear to simply be trying to corner the market with a particular branding/#naming strategy.

@lightweight

@TXsharon I suspect that most of the #climateTroll activities on #FB are paid #fossilfuel provocateurs so #astroturf and it’s links are not a surprise, just a disappointment.