david roberts

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If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this:

At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/1604866859018473474

In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

NPR
Dec 19, 2022 at 5:34pmWeb
Show threadBrian C. Martinson, PhDDec 19, 2022
@drvolts I find it *very* odd that I follow you on Twitter, but almost never see your posts there cross my TL. Whereas here on Mastodon, I think I see nearly all of them. 🤔
Show threadT. T. PerryDec 19, 2022

@bcmFietser @drvolts

It's a shame he posts to Twitter and syndicates to Masto