Facebook has helped give greater legitimacy to controversial organizations like ACT for America, a self - described national
security grassroots advocacy group that has been accused of promoting Islamophobia, according to Beirich.
That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained
grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy
security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.