Astroturfing: How Fake Grassroots Organizations Can Influence the Media
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In this eye-opening talk, Sharyl Attkisson, an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C, shows how astroturf, or fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages.
In the first few minutes, she shines a powerful light on “cancer myths” and what happens to those who speak truth to power.
Sharyl is currently writing a book entitled Stonewalled (Harper Collins), which addresses the unseen influences of corporations and special interests on the information and images the public receives every day in the news and elsewhere.
Want to know why you should question sources and the confusing “controversies” that can appear in social media? The answer is in this video.
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/-bYAQ-ZZtEU”][/vc_column][/vc_row]Robyn O’Brien is the co-founder of rePlant Capital, an impact investment firm, deploying integrated capital from soil to shelf in order to build soil health and financial resiliency for farmers. She is also the founder of Do Good, a strategic advisory firm, and the AllergyKids Foundation. Random House published Robyn’s book, The Unhealthy Truth, in 2009, and her TEDx talks have been translated into dozens of languages and viewed by millions around the world.
