| It's possible of course. Still, he was a hated personality nobody in the IT community would come close to and then suddenly everybody is loving the guy. Some stuff really don't feel right. My first "oh-oh" moment was when this arrived on the imgur front page (apparently 2015, not 2016 so my timing is off): http://imgur.com/gallery/YDuoHdr Everything, form the title to the content and the firsts comment is really weird. After this, I started seeing the Gate foundation work popping everywhere, and supports in comments of major social medias where only suspicion was before. I did a mission for the Gate foundation 8 years ago in Africa, and at that time nobody speaker about this entity. I had to explain it every time I talked to someone new. I have a hard time to believe the medias suddenly took a (very one-sided) interest for something that have been here for such a long time for no reason. Yes, yes, I can be totally wrong. Still I can't help but wonder. |
It's probably not the primary factor in opinion on him being drastically reversed, and I doubt he has any personal involvement, but it's possibly one of the tools utilized by his PR team.