Crowds on Demand

What Is Astroturfing?

The Internet and especially social media has peppered our dictionaries with new words and phrases. Additionally, old words and phrases have taken on new meanings. For example, you will often see references to people’s personal information being stolen. How can someone steal something when it remains where it is? You get the drift.  One such […]

Paid Protest Firm ‘Crowds On Demand’ Sued in $23 Million Extortion Plot Threatening Harassment and Defamation

A smear campaign involving a staged protest, spreading misinformation, and a negative phone and email campaign was allegedly used against a Czech investor. He says his business rival threatened to ramp up harassment by Crowds On Demand unless he paid $23 million to make it stop.

Paid Actors Flooded City Council Meetings to Win Approval of Fossil Fuel Plant

“They paid us to sit through the meeting and clap every time someone said something against wind and solar power,” said one actor. (CD) — “What do you do when you want to push through a climate change-inducing, obscenely expensive fracked gas power plant in the USA’s most climate threatened city?” asked “Gasland” director Josh Fox. “Well… pay actors […]