StrypeyApr 20, 2019

I recently read this 2013 article by #JohnStauber, one of the founders of the Centre for Media and Democracy, which runs #SourceWatch.org, about corporate funding of the astroturf "Progressive Movement":
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/15/the-progressive-movement-is-a-pr-front-for-rich-democrats/

He mentions #MoveOn.org, which gets me wondering about where the #NZ equivalent, #ActionStation.org.nz, gets its funding from. According to its own site, there are some eerier parallels:
https://www.actionstation.org.nz/about/our-funding

The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats

Paid to Lose More

CounterPunch.org
Show threadStrypeyApr 17, 2019
We desperately need groups like #SourceWatch.org and #PRWatch.org to be carefully monitoring organizations lobbying on tech policy and helping us distinguish those that work with grassroots tech activists from the #astroturf groups that work for corporate money.
Show threadStrypeyDec 11, 2018
@mike_hales by the time I got to the end of the presentation I could definitely see why you propose that the P2P/ commons movement is the "third movement", it definitely represents a turn towards #CitizenResearch and #CitizenScience, just as much as it does a participatory approach to software development or design. #Wikipedia is the archetypal early example, but there are so many others, like #SourceWatch, #Appropedia, #PlantsForAFuture, even more rebellious sites like #Erowid.