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The volatility of crypto markets is often exacerbated by social media and the nature of unregulated publishing on a grand scale. When cryptocurrencies started to explode in 2017 pumps and dumps were commonplace, occasionally initiated by a shill on a social platform. Altcoin markets have calmed down ...

The Trump administration's lack of diversity is so widespread that it even extends to the White House intern program. On Monday, Trump posed for a photo with the Spring 2018 class of White House interns, which drew criticism for the overwhelmingly white makeup of the group. On MSNBC Live Sunday ...

In a fiery speech to the Washington, D.C. March For Our Lives, Parkland, Florida, student-turned-activist David Hogg went off on politicians who choose the NRA over Americans. He put a tag on the microphone that displayed $1.05. It represents how much Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) accepted from the NRA in ...

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in INTO magazine and was republished with the magazine's permission. A right-wing group launched an ad campaign last Monday urging Alaskans to vote in favor of one of the nation's most dangerous anti-LGBTQ laws. In a 30-second TV spot produced by the ...

Let's say you're in charge of marketing BlackBerry phones. You don't have nearly as much cachet as you did in BlackBerry's heyday, and all the social media buzz tends to surround the latest Galaxy or iPhone. What do you do? If you're TCL, it's simple: turn the fans into marketers. It's launching a BlackBerry ...

Throughout Unicorp National Development's extended battle with the voters of Longboat Key, as well as with Longboat Key's Town Commission and Planning and Zoning Board, the Longboat Observer has proudly served as Unicorp's unwavering shill. Taking this process a step further to recommend a ...

"Scams where more than 10% of the posts are from shills last longer than those where more than 10% of the posts are from scammers. Furthermore, more shill posts seems to be more effective than the combined strategy [scammer + shill posting], considering both shill posts and scam posts to contribute to ...

Eric Greitens and his "shills or surrogates" of "slut-shaming" the governor's former mistress, and of the "malicious maligning, with racial undertones" of the St. Louis circuit attorney, who is prosecuting the criminal case against Greitens. In a 27-minute news conference outside Jefferson City's police station ...

Eric Greitens and his "shills or surrogates" of "slut-shaming" the governor's former mistress, and of the "malicious maligning, with racial undertones" of the St. Louis circuit attorney, who is prosecuting the criminal case against Greitens. In a 27-minute news conference outside Jefferson City's police station ...

When the Trump administration took office early last year, hundreds of staffers from lobbying firms, conservative think tanks and Trump campaign groups began pouring into the very agencies they once lobbied or whose work they once opposed. Today we're making available, for the first time, ...

Cryptocurrency YouTubers like Michael 'Suppoman' Suppo are rapidly tarnishing the integrity of ICOs, and on a broader level, the cryptocurrency space at large. Inundated with allegations of shilling, both Suppo and other YouTubers have – rightly or wrongly – suffered major reputational damage in the ...

The ability of residents to self-determine their form of local government was ended by non-resident landowners of planned area developments. Shea Homes Regional Project Manager Rob Izer and General Manager Levi Shill previously expressed the desire to explore annexation into the Town of Queen ...

…at least that's the pretty clear inference a reasonable person would draw from a rather sketchy article at Yahoo! Sports which appeared Sunday trashing Wade and LSU basketball's burgeoning nationally-ranked basketball recruiting class without anything that looks like evidence. Pete Thamel, who ...

... violent crime—instead of denying access to high capacity semi-automatic weapons such as the AR-15—which caused carnage in Parkland, as well as in Newtown, San Bernardino, Las Vegas, and Sutherland Springs—shows that Scott likely won't deviate too far from his post as a trusty shill for the NRA.

President Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, endorsed Mitt Romney last night in his bid to replace Sen. Orrin Hatch in Utah. The endorsement came via tweet. No surprise there. What surprised many, however, was Romney's quick acceptance of the endorsement, despite having once said he would ...

Lissa Lucas made the long trip to the West Virginia House of Delegates to provide much-needed context on bill HB 4268, a fossil fuel-industry backed bill, and with good reason. The bill is designed to allow drilling to proceed without the consent of all affected private landowners–you know, the people ...

Photographer Nina Berman's film Triumph of the Shill presents footage from the president's election and inauguration in a cinematographic tribute to Leni Riefenstahl's infamous Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. Most viewers will see black-and-white scenes of enraptured white Trump supporters ...

Shortly after welcoming Ember Jean into the world, Audrey told her followers that this problem resulted in more physical pain for her than she even experienced during childbirth. Yikes, right? We feel terrible for Audrey and we salute her for being so honest about such difficulty. However, we've often found ...

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You have to be trained in the use of it, it's not a toy. This is not a game, and if you have kids in your house, you gotta lock your guns up. They have -- you know, go to libertysafe.com. They have fingerprint handgun safes that open in a second. It's -- you can't get to it any quicker, and ...

Politico reported Sunday that Nunes, the California representative who chairs the House Intelligence Committe, is behind fake news website the California Republican. Currently, carepublican.com is down for business and the site redirects to a Facebook page that blames the outage on "heavy traffic" and ...

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The urban growth machine, including its enablers in public office and academia, dish out endless cover stories to camouflage their hidden agenda of priming the pumps of real estate speculation. When one of their self-serving theories bites the dust, they quickly advance another ...

I promised myself two things: that I wouldn't watch the reboot of the sitcom Roseanne and that I wouldn't write a think piece about it. I have broken both promises. I am a bad person. I loved the original run of Roseanne. I grew up watching '80s sitcoms that were either about cheerful upper-middle class ...

When the Trump administration took office early last year, hundreds of staffers from lobbying firms, conservative think tanks and Trump campaign groups began pouring into the very agencies they once lobbied or whose work they once opposed. Today we're making available, for the first time, ...