As the year 2014 takes its last breath, two stories caught my eye. The first from The New York Times explored how the Internet can still be a powerful tool to activate civil disobedience even with draconian government censorship stifling free speech. The second from Boing Boing (and elsewhere) exposed how the Marriott Corporation is petitioning the FCC…… Continue reading The Moscow Marriott
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Russia’s Media Trolls
Nearly six years ago, I penned a post titled “Leaders Who Lie,” mostly about the blatant misinformation campaign propagated by one Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I followed it up several years later with a similarly themed post titled “PR Rogues Gallery,” which broadened the meme to include Yasser Arafat, Syria’s Assad, Libya’s Qaddafi and Russia, which could…… Continue reading Russia’s Media Trolls