Sentences with phrase «campaign against journalists»

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The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

Uber investor Ashton Kutcher is defending Uber from comments that one of its executives made on Friday, in which the exec casually threatened to launch a smear campaign against a specific journalist who had written negatively about the company.

Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen - journalist campaign focusing on regulatory capture, hedge fund mischief, settlement system failures, systemic risk, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign governments.

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

Laws based on that misguided assumption have resulted in an almost open - ended campaign against basic freedoms that have drawn the ire of journalists, humanitarian activists and leading Muslim intellectuals who have had their rights infringed in the name of protecting national security.

Addressing journalists in Gombe, Nafada said the state governor never intimidated anyone against campaigning for Atiku.

The first year of the trial, labelled by journalists as «the whiffy wheat» trial, caused significant public attention when Take the Flour Back was formed to campaign against the field trial and held a protest at the site.

In Nature Wars, to be released next week, award - winning journalist Jim Sterba argues that it's time for Americans to reconnect with nature — and what better incentive than a massive lethal control campaign against any number of plants and animals, including feral cats?

And George Monbiot — Guardian — environmental journalist George is Hon President of the Campaign Against Climate Change http://www.campaigncc.org/hallofshame

His latest arrest is part of a broader pattern of intimidation and attacks by Congolese authorities against journalists, human rights activists and other members of civil society, including those campaigning against abuses in the mining sector.

Journalists have been asking me whether the revulsion against the abuse of Facebook data could be a turning point for the campaign to recover privacy.