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Taiwan: Petrochemical industry pays for blog posts

Categories: East Asia, Taiwan (ROC), Environment, Media & Journalism, Politics, Technology

Michael Turton writes about how the Taiwan Green Party accused the government of paying bloggers [1] to write about a visit to petrochemical plants. Green Party member Pan Han-shen (潘翰聲) says the practice is greenwashing [2] [zh-tw] and accused the government and corporations of forming a “$5,000 Party” (五千黨) [3] [zh-tw].