HACKER Q&A
📣 t0lo

Do you have experience in/knowledge of online pro-corporate propaganda?


Hi HN, we all know state propaganda is rife online in this day and age, and well documented both by institutions like Columbia uni and Oxford, and training/workplace videos of bot farms and office workers on youtube.

What I don't see often documented, but I think is equally prevalent, is corporate online disinformation/misinformation efforts. These companies often have much higher gdps than nation states, and their efforts seem more discreet, at least in the media.

Would greatly appreciate anything you have :)


  👤 getwiththeprog Accepted Answer ✓
It is called advertizing!

Advertizing is so effective that much advertizing becomes normalized and then spread for free by other media.

Advertizing and corporate agendas also infiltrate films and television - this is such a huge area. Media studies at universities may look at it. Start digging and you will uncover quite a lot of reading material.


👤 Over2Chars
I believe that some corporations and their PR firms have been caught updating their wikipedia pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_o...