Mastodawn

“Author @[email protected] breaks down the specifics of how automakers, fossil fuel companies and roadway engineers, have lied about the dangers of car dependency— & manipulated the public into believing them.” ICYMI @[email protected] gets into #DarkPR in @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth

Stop the Spin: How to Spot Nin...

Stop the Spin: How to Spot Nine Types of Auto-Industry Disinformation — Streetsblog USA

Corporate disinformation has played a key role in creating America's deadly transportation culture — and it will keep happening until advocates learn to spot the most common forms of spin and organize against the policies they helped create.

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Urban Truth Collective Mar 10

“I’m not going to beat around the bush. This book is about evil.” “It’s about the mundane, humdrum, self-assured, self-justifying, pocket-lining, smug & arrogant lies & disinformation that communications ‘professionals’ spread daily.” Read #DarkPR by our own @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth

"Dark PR" by Grant Ennis

"Dark PR" by Grant Ennis

I'm not going to beat about the bush. This book is about evil.

Brent Toderian Feb 28

“I’m not going to beat around the bush. This book is about evil.” “It’s about the mundane, humdrum, self-assured, self-justifying, pocket-lining, smug & arrogant lies & disinformation that communications ‘professionals’ spread daily.” Read #DarkPR by @[email protected]. #UrbanismBookClub

"Dark PR" by Grant Ennis

"Dark PR" by Grant Ennis

I'm not going to beat about the bush. This book is about evil.

Urban Truth Collective Feb 26

“Many corporations want to keep the conversation around individual responsibility not systemic change or corporate culpability.” “We need sustained & organised movements always putting pressure on politicians to counter the corporate lobbies.” @[email protected] on #DarkPR in the Irish Times

Is corporate PR duping us and ...

Is corporate PR duping us and derailing solutions to global warming and chronic diseases?

‘We need to go back to basics to organise ourselves in groups, to have clear political objectives and to demand change’

The Irish Times

Urban Truth Collective Feb 20

“Author @[email protected] breaks down the specifics of how automakers, fossil fuel companies and roadway engineers, have lied about the dangers of car dependency— & manipulated the public into believing them.” ICYMI @[email protected] gets into #DarkPR in @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth

Stop the Spin: How to Spot Nin...

Stop the Spin: How to Spot Nine Types of Auto-Industry Disinformation — Streetsblog USA

Corporate disinformation has played a key role in creating America's deadly transportation culture — and it will keep happening until advocates learn to spot the most common forms of spin and organize against the policies they helped create.

Lee 🌏Dec 28

@parismarx
2026
Have you had @grantennis
on the podcast? #DarkPR

Our Wonderful Green Future Aug 11, 2025

@G3rt I always recommend people read #DarkPR by @grantennis
Climate Change & petrochemical waste are not only the result of individual behaviors, but are structural outcomes of corporate overproduction.
Blaming individuals for systemic problems deflects attention from the real source: powerful industries that overproduce harmful goods and then use dark PR tactics to shape public opinion and policy. We need to think about our consumption and stopping the forces behind overproduction.

Myspace Tom Feb 9, 2025

Love to! If I thought it would work, but evidence shows these boycotts don't really work. @grantennis.bsky.social writes about this in #DarkPR but I can't remember the details of the research papers he quotes on this.

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Lee 🌏Oct 15, 2024

@timrichards This problem is very well explain by @grantennis in #DarkPR
How "we need to do everything to stop climate change" = we do nothing (significant)
https://darajapress.com/publication/dark-pr-how-corporate-disinformation-harms-our-health-and-the-environment

Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health and the Environment

“Think global, act local!” “Be the change you want to see in the world!” “Every little bit counts!” We can all get on board with such sentiments, right? That, of course, is exactly what corporate s…

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Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧in🇦🇺Aug 26, 2024

Excited to see my new #book coedited with Vian Bakir out on Google Books already! Check it out here if you are interested in how #disinformation #propaganda #influenceoperations #PR #DarkPR #influence #socialmedia #data and #AI are transforming our world: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q24bEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false @potemkinvillage

Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains.The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and data-driven persuasive practices has been linked to the spread of misleading content in domestic and foreign influence campaigns. This has prompted worldwide public and policy discussions about disinformation and how to curb its spread. However, less attention has been paid to the increasingly data-driven commercial industry taking advantage of the opportunities these new technologies afford. The handbook uses the term ‘influence’ here to include not only messaging and public relations (PR), which fell within the traditional focus of propaganda studies, but to consider the infrastructure and actors behind an advanced array of capabilities that can be used in a coordinated way to affect an audience’s emotions, ideas and behaviors in order to advance a state or non-state actor’s objectives – increasingly based on data-driven profiling. The volume fills a gap in scholarship exploring the recent technical, political and economic development of this industry, surveying the extent of different technologies and services offered to clients worldwide across multiple domains (commercial, political, national security and government). The chapters are divided into three thematic sections and evaluate Influence Industry practices, aims and effectiveness across audiences; business practices and economics; and democratic structures and human rights. They also offer advice for researchers and consider key ethical issues and new regulatory approaches.This volume will be of much interest to students of political science, propaganda studies, sociology, communication studies and journalism.

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