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Top image: The headline of a New York Times article, "How greenwashing fools us".
Bottom image: Screenshot of an ad article in the New York Times titled "How can aviation fly towards net zero?". There's a small BP logo and a disclaimer: "This content was paid for by BP".
I hear the arguments about “how sad, but they did note it is a paid piece” but this should absolutely be in the advertisement section, not a post with NYT heading.
Because now, this can be cited as “NYT said XYZ, see?” and because it’s presented like an article or opinion piece, it’s treated as such - disclosure or no. This is exactly the same astroturfing the oil and tobacco industries did with scientists and ‘research’ mills that churned out sympathetic studies for marketing to distort.
Disgusting to see “the paper or record” nakedly shilling - again.