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That...Makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it. I guess it wasn't really apparent to me before it came to my attention like this, but making online cont

That...Makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it. I guess it wasn't really apparent to me before it came to my attention like this, but making online content and artificially boosting it, so you can blend your funds within what you've obtained from ad revenue is so simple, yet so brilliant. Makes you wonder what other media out there might be laundering schemes, too...

netsharc 4y ago
There is a shitton of crap movies in Hollywood. I wonder... Of course Hollywood accounting is already "This movie took $100 million at the box office, we spent $98 million on 'marketing', using our own internal marketing company.". I guess making crap Hollywood movies loses you money rather than laundering it...
- objclxt 4y ago
  > There is a shitton of crap movies in Hollywood. I wonder... The movie doesn't need to be crap to be a product of money laundering! The Wolf of Wall Street[1] was infamously funded by money laundering (from the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund), [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)#1MDB_scandal_and_subsequent_Red_Granite_lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_...
  - djmips 4y ago
    Wow that's a rabbit hole! https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/prosecution-tells-jury-follow-money-return-guilty-verdict-roger-ng-and-coconspirators-stole https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/prosecution-tells-jur...
    - unethical_ban 4y ago
      That site screams "malware delivery" or spam at the least.
      - Melting_Harps 4y ago
        > That site screams "malware delivery" or spam at the least. I was intrigued since I recall the 1MDB scam, but didn't know all the details about it so I archived it [0]. 0: https://archive.ph/HuEbS https://archive.ph/HuEbS
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