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Energy Company Money Flows to News Sites
Energy Company Money Flows to News Sites
December 21, 2022 at 4:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/21/energy-company-money-flows-to-news-sites/
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At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy, NPR reports.
Emily Atkin: “This is a high-stakes story for both the climate and democracy. It shows fossil fuel interests taking advantage of a struggling local news environment to push an anti-renewable agenda on an unwitting public. It reveals an insidious corporate strategy to erode the free press—one of the core pillars of democracy—for profit.”
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