Sentences with phrase «sway public»

The Taxi industry tried to sway the public by telling us their drivers are trained professionals and therefore safer, properly insured, and operated under the laws.

It became Stephenson's task to garner favour from FDR to access the industrial might of the United States and sway public opinion to join the allied war effort.

While it's not unusual for governments or agencies to issue warnings or try to educate the public on what regulators may consider risky investments, Polish financial authorities have taken it a step further, spending taxpayers» money on a smear campaign — trying to sway public opinion against crypto assets by paying social media influencers to attack them.

As reported by the Post, Facebook found 470 likely fraudulent profiles and pages, which it linked to the promotion of 3,300 ads designed to sway public opinion in America.

In 2016, Russian state actors used Facebook to try and sway public opinion during the U.S. presidential election.

Since taking the lead on turning the Segwit2x scaling agreement into code, the CEO of blockchain startup Bloq has been accused of everything from closing off bitcoin's open - source development to encouraging unnecessarily aggressive network changes to playing loose with facts to sway public sentiment on the plan.

The 34 - year - old entrepreneur has the power to help introduce a young token to mainstream audiences, as he did with litecoin in 2017, or sway public opinion about what currency can even be called «bitcoin.»

This personal information was subsequently used to target voters and sway public opinion, in ways that benefited the then presidential candidate Trump.

Facebook is still finding — and banning — accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll army with ties to the Kremlin that tried to sway public opinion on Facebook during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

China also hires people who are paid to post content favorable to Communist Party policy on the Internet, attempting to sway public opinion.

While issuing warnings or trying to educate the public against what regulators fear are risky investments are not uncommon around the world, in this case they tried to sway public opinion against crypto assets by paying social media influencers to attack them.

And during a crisis, any and all comments have the potential to sway public opinion.

Does it represent a concerted effort to sway public opinion or change the outcome of a trial?

Re 78: Recent history is replete with attempts to sway public opinion by repeating a lie until it is believed generally by the public.

As for the mushiness, Tierney needs to keep in mind that while the field welcomes criticism, it would be nice if said critics would actually try to work through the established scientific conferences and organizations instead of running out and trying to sway the public and politicians instead (again, another bad habit they seem to share in common with the creationists).

The reason: Special interest groups, with funding and support from Big Polluters, have spent decades on well - coordinated campaigns to spread doubt in the media and sway public opinion about the reality of the crisis.

As a scientist he is not unsophisticated and he does know that these are not the same, but he is saying that these are the same to sway the public and score political points.

Then they incorporate the figure into the party's message in an attempt to sway public opinion against the important legislation.

I'm convinced that the quickest way possible to sway public opinion is to: 1.

managed by Edelman and the API, all intended to sway public, media and Congressional opinion in order to prevent any laws from being passed that will reduce fossil fuel combustion.

Levy struggled to sway public opinion on the status and potential market value of photography, but he found few buyers willing to pay the prices he was asking.

You are using apparent false advertising to sway public perception.

I'm not sure if Authors United is a bunch of elitists who know they're full of shit and are trying to make the best argument they can to sway public opinion because they don't want the gravy train to end, or if they're truly as stupid as they appear.

Authors United can't win on logic, facts, or even common sense, so they are appealing to emotion to sway public opinion, and the language they're using is tailored to that.

The campaign is called «Get it Right from a Genuine Site» and the purpose is try and sway public opinion to support the creative arts and not pirate content.

In order to sway public thought, Broad scrapped the documentary format we saw in Waiting for Superman and are banking on 100 % emotional content for this one.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

A series of unsavory revelations about the U.S. Department of Education's efforts to sway the public in favor of its major school improvement measure could stain the law's reputation and cast doubt on future information from the agency, say many observers, including supporters of the law.

«Hillary's America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party» is a documentary that features poor reenactments of history, without reference of context, in order to sway public opinion during an election.

They do, however, raise serious questions about the validity of climate models (which are, of course, used to predict future warming and are used to set public policy and sway public opinion) and how much we are actually warming.

Despite declining revenues and criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. media outlets — even small ones — are still able to sway public discussion.

When some politicians try to sway public opinion, they employ the tricks of the debating chamber: cherry - picking data, ignoring the consensus opinions of experts, adept use of a sneer or a misplaced comparison, reliance on the power of rhetoric rather than argument.

Communication and propaganda too, can be used to spread false information or sway public opinion, as has been seen in Russia and Ukraine.

As the House of Representatives prepares for the scheduled vote on the legislation, state and federal leaders are fighting to sway the public to their side.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie warns that special interests could hijack the convention by trying to sway public opinion through an expensive campaign.

As the west contemplated the ins - and - outs of intervention, bloggers took to their keyboards to sway public debate.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie warned that special interests could hijack the convention by trying to sway public opinion through an expensive campaign.

Cuomo says he will try to sway the public to support campaign finance reform, working with a coalition of reform groups to «raise awareness» in the coming months.

It gives whoever controls the platform the possibility to sway public opinion by deciding what kind of speech to permit on their platform.

It could be used to sway the public opinion, but as previously mentioned there is little reason to do that.

If teams and city officials couldn't sway the public with handy mnemonics, they'd appeal to their sense of civic pride, sometimes warning that the city would fall off a social and economic cliff.

A DA can and will release as much info as he can to sway public opinion for any one of a million reasons.

Today, the media, demagoguery, mind conditioning, and all sorts of other methods are used to sway public opinion and manipulate minds, giving the impression of a collective rape of consciences and a serious confiscation of freedoms and of thought.

Story says, «The letter urges followers to frame this as a debate about religious freedom, not contraception, because it's a more effective way to sway public opinion.»

The letter urges followers to frame this as a debate about religious freedom, not contraception, because it's a more effective way to sway public opinion.

And that we most of what we hear on the news or in church is heavily censored and meant to sway public or cult - like opinions.

Nothing more than an effort by the gay loving media to sway public opinion and misreport public opinion.

Though it is by no means a new phenomenon (Richard Nixon gave us the audio, and Marion Barry was busted in black and white), this week's hidden camera / hidden microphone stings of National Public Radio executives seem to be symptomatic of the new norm in efforts to sway public sentiment.

Democrats have already made it clear buybacks will be a primary attack point as they seek to sway public opinion about the tax law and take back the House and Senate in the midterms.

While issuing warnings or trying to educate the public against what regulators fear are risky investments are not uncommon around the world, in this case they tried to sway public opinion against crypto assets by paying social media influencers to attack them.