3 ms·
Called it. A group no one had ever heard of before, suddenly gets widespread media coverage just a week after their website is created. There are way too many g
by concinds 3y ago
Called it. A group no one had ever heard of before, suddenly gets widespread media coverage just a week after their website is created. There are way too many groups trying to manipulate democracy through bad-faith marketing campaigns, using the media to spread their talking points and feed an illusion of popularity for unpopular decisions.
It's not billionaires trying to manipulate public opinion and media, it's an NGO, a grassroots initiative, the people's voice! Deep, vigorous involvement of civil society (billionaire-funded NGOs) is essential to any free country! What a fucking scam.
- HHC-Hunter 3y agoIt's really depressing how openly easy the NGO's are to spot.
- nebula8804 3y agoI just googled Heat initiative and while all results are within 1-4 weeks of the WHOIS registration date of the website(8-16-23), the sources ive seen are the NYTimes, Forbes, PRNewsWire, Wired, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac. I tried searching for things like fox news, MSNBC, CNN, even OAN but not much came up. Maybe those Democratic donors have connections to those specific publications? Also, I don't know if this could be considered "widespread media coverage" since it is limited to print and only one side of the aisle (or my google searches couldn't pick up the others) but I totally get your point. It seems like there might be an opportunity to "reverse engineer" which groups/people tend to trigger which media orgs to publish something.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoYes, the first amendment also applies to billionaires and corporations, and if that weren't the case encryption would likely already be dead, since big tech companies wouldn't be allowed to lobby for it.