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Re:IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of C... by lucaspiller on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:30AM (#15382852)
How do you know they have not? As I understand Cambridge Analytica work rather discretely, so how do you know a piece on Bitcoin by say NYT (or even this!) isn’t funded by them?
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Re:IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of C... by endgame on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:58AM (#15383162)
While they probably work on discrete campaigns, you may have meant "discreetly".
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Re:IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of C... by creatrixcordis on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:37AM (#15382877)
it is a possibility, i guess they would pay the journalist or influence his sources, i guess the old adage of who controls context or environment somewhat therefore controls opinion... similar to the sort of things that spy agencies engage in
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