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Are the facts in the story false?
by forgingahead 6y ago
Are the facts in the story false?
- marton78 6y agoThe claim is probably "they're likely false, please exercise caution"
- tptacek 6y agoI have no idea if they're false. It's a phoned-in article about a series of tweets. I wrote a comment about "Newsweek", not about the particulars of the post. "Newsweek" is essentially an SEO scam, is the point I'm making, the same way we'd point it out if a scraped blog post was blogspam.
- snoshy 6y agoPublic service at its finest in the modern world, little thanks for the perseverance it can take to drive it through. Kudos.
- Guthur 6y agoPurchasing a brand is hardly a scam. You might not like who bought it but it's quite common to buy brands. To be honest I have no idea who Newsweek were or are and if they stopped being the original group 7-8 years ago it hardly seems like you could maintain any brand loyalty if you were eroding it with wrong doing over that whole time.
- pvg 6y agoTo be honest I have no idea who Newsweek were or are These things seem germane to the discussion, though.
- Guthur 6y agoNot at all. The OP was maintaining because the brand changed hands that it was somehow a scam, that feels quite disingenuous.
- kasey_junk 6y agoNewsweek was a bastion of print media for decades in the US. It would be similar to someone turning the BBC into a Christian news organization. The organization that took over Newsweek did it with the intention to improve their own credibility by banking on the name, while removing all the people and processes that built that credibility in the first place. If it’s not an outright scam it’s certainly approaching it.
- NeutronStar 6y agoIf you ever change your stance on an issue are you a scam?
- tclancy 6y agoConsider the anti-tracking browser extensions that gain enough popularity they get bought by ad tracking companies. Is that also legitimate?
- Guthur 6y agoSure it is if it's a legal transaction, I'm really not sure why it's so difficult to understand. The problem here is that many of you are projecting your own brand of morals on these deals, and many people may not share that perspective.
- pvg 6y agothat feels How would you assess the accuracy of that feeling without knowing or finding out about the facts being discussed? You're saying 'I know nothing about this at all but that isn't germane because the OP is giving me a disingenuous vibe'. It's a curiously strident, stridently incurious position.
- pornel 6y agoIf you buy a brand and quietly change what it stands for, I'd say it is scammy. Consumers to think they're getting one thing, but you give them another.