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In 2009, an internal memo at Chevron spoke of a “long-term” plan to “demonize” Donziger. The same year, Chevron created The Amazon Post. Skimmed in a Twitter Feed, the name is obviously designed to look like some sort of news outlet. But clicking through, you’ll see the subtitle: “Chevron’s Views on the Ecuador Lawsuit.”

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6661647-Demonize-Donziger.html

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 2y ago

For fourteen years, Chevron has played Regina George by using the Amazon Post (and its Spanish-language affiliate websites) as their Big Oil Burn Book. Their mission statement of sorts is viewable on the Wayback Machine:

The false news and misleading information [30,000 Indigenous Peasant Farmers] put out deserves to be corrected-and the public has a right to know the truth. This is Chevron’s blog to set the record straight!

https://web.archive.org/web/20100128201513/http://theamazonpost.com/

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 2y ago

To date, the Wall Street Journal has run nine pro-Chevron, anti-Donziger opinion pieces. Plenty of other major outlets have argued in their favor.

Chevron is still putting paid spend behind the website on Twitter. Spend too much time researching Steven , you’ll likely start to see them. As recently as October 2022, academic (and NeoliberalHell pod co-host) Matthew J. Donovan confirmed that Chevron had created approximately 9,000 backlinks to the Amazon Post.