The cable operator paid people off the street to pack an FCC hearing on its network discrimination practices, keeping critics and activists from attending or speaking at the hearing.

Sony's astroturf blog "was a little too funky fresh???"

Tom Coates calls the application Give Israel Your United Support "a really troubling kind of troll-supporting political malware, representing a technologically-empowered massively-distributed form of propoganda that I've never seen before." Read the whole

The, um, inconvenient spoof came out of Exxon's PR agency.

This article details some of the issues at stake for the telecom companies with the new round of regulation in Congress. I was not aware of the issues surrounding the Universal Service Fund.