The Dallas Morning News has reported that a consultant working for the owners of the Museum Tower, a 42-story residential building designed by Johnson Fain on the edge of the city's Arts District, has used fake social media accounts to try to sway public opinion about the project. Since its completion last year, the tower’s reflective glass facade has bounced sunlight into the skylit galleries of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a 2003 museum and sculpture garden designed by Renzo Piano, and led to the closing of its James Turrell "skyspace."
The situation has sparked a bitter fight over who should act to mitigate the glare. According to the Morning News, the consultant behind the fake accounts, former television news anchor Mike Snyder, used the personas to post comments that sided with the Museum Tower's owners, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, on news stories about the controversy.
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