In communities lacking adequate local news media, what is in essence nothing more than propaganda might be the sum total of coverage an important issue gets. We need stronger laws to curb misinformation in advertising.
Despite no clear sources of income, they spent $153,000 on pro-oil and anti-regulation social media advertising, focused on eight postal code regions in just one month. This is an amount far greater than most genuine grassroots environmental causes have to spend on operations in a given year, let alone advertising.
