> EFF did this is to get journalists to get a story to write about the issue.

Except exactly 0 articles were written outside of them writing an article about it themselves. Where is the 'lots of publicity'? They generate just as much when they write and article about anything in general.

>Except exactly 0 articles were written outside of them writing an article about it themselves

It was also covered by MacRumors: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/24/eff-apple-park-banner-c...

Ahh finally found one! Btw that was published after it hit the front page here.

See? Story seeding in progress. This thread is welcomed to the media ecochain.

I am rather disapointed to see HN has more power to seed a story than the EFF.

If an organisation writes an article to promote a cause, and it gets picked up and commented on by other websites... isn't it that original organisation who "seeded" the story?

Maybe you're right. My point was that having one banner towing flight is not an outrageous expense of money or CO2.

There's still time. Also it made the front page of Hacker News. So I'd say that's a success.