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by gumballindie 1148 days ago
“we wanted to help steer it in a positive direction” - by using data without consent and leading a marketing campaign based on making millions of people jobless? are these people crazy?
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It's "Criti-Hype", basically using FUD to get media attention to lower CAC.

Source: https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-cr...

Nice read. Here's another good one among the same lines but a bit more blunt: https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/