misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoYou Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertisingwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down13
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minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down2·edit-26 months ago How Advertising Propaganda Broke the World Fixed that for you, Wired. They’re the same fucking thing. One is just somehow legal for companies to spew lies about their products and services. Advertising in the modern world is nothing but propaganda for corporations. Same with Public Relations. If this wasn’t the case, why the fuck would any corporation need a “Fusion Intelligence Center” that specifically targeted scientists and journalists who were simply producing information that made the company look bad?
minus-squaremisk@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down8·6 months agoThat’s a really weird thing to get angry over. Advertising as a term is much better at conveying what they wanted to.
Fixed that for you, Wired. They’re the same fucking thing. One is just somehow legal for companies to spew lies about their products and services.
Advertising in the modern world is nothing but propaganda for corporations. Same with Public Relations. If this wasn’t the case, why the fuck would any corporation need a “Fusion Intelligence Center” that specifically targeted scientists and journalists who were simply producing information that made the company look bad?
That’s a really weird thing to get angry over. Advertising as a term is much better at conveying what they wanted to.
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