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Report: Restaurant Lobby Monitored Fast-Food Protests

HeadlineMay 06, 2014

Newly obtained records reveal how the world’s largest food service trade group is monitoring the growing mobilization of fast-food workers. Internal documents obtained by Salon show the National Restaurant Association “closely monitor[ed] social media for any plans or signs of activity,” “entered several hundred zip codes” into a campaign website to locate protests, and tracked changes on the Wikipedia page of a prominent organizer. Known as “the other NRA,” the National Restaurant Association is a powerful lobbying group with nearly 500,000 member businesses.

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