John Farrell
Wow. Customers in the Southeast get screwed on their electric bills because their utilities use their money to buy fake news coverage in pay-to-play "news" sites, unseating regulators that try to protect consumers: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm
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 20, 2022 at 1:33amWeb
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@johnffarrell The question becomes: how isolated is this behavior? Is it the state of the game in many places?