#reputationlaundering — Public Fediverse posts

"Who paid for the report?

This is a good place to start and it should come as no surprise that research proclaiming the positive impact of TikTok was paid for by (you guessed it) TikTok."

#DamienVenuto, 2026

https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361011711/tiktok-contributed-estimated-12bn-nz-economy-wait-what

The "research" discussed in this article is a great example of defensive reputation laundering. ToxTik are probably stockpiling self- congratulatory fluff like this in preparation to fight off any attempt at regulation.

#ReputationLaundering #TikTok #SocialMedia

"Who paid for the report?

This is a good place to start and it should come as no surprise that research proclaiming the positive impact of TikTok was paid for by (you guessed it) TikTok."

#DamienVenuto, 2026

https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361011711/tiktok-contributed-estimated-12bn-nz-economy-wait-what

The "research" discussed in this article is a great example of defensive reputation laundering. ToxTik are probably stockpiling self- congratulatory fluff like this in preparation to fight off any attempt at regulation.

#ReputationLaundering #TikTok #SocialMedia

"Who paid for the report?

This is a good place to start and it should come as no surprise that research proclaiming the positive impact of TikTok was paid for by (you guessed it) TikTok."

#DamienVenuto, 2026

https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361011711/tiktok-contributed-estimated-12bn-nz-economy-wait-what

The "research" discussed in this article is a great example of defensive reputation laundering. ToxTik are probably stockpiling self- congratulatory fluff like this in preparation to fight off any attempt at regulation.

#ReputationLaundering #TikTok #SocialMedia

"Who paid for the report?

This is a good place to start and it should come as no surprise that research proclaiming the positive impact of TikTok was paid for by (you guessed it) TikTok."

#DamienVenuto, 2026

https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361011711/tiktok-contributed-estimated-12bn-nz-economy-wait-what

The "research" discussed in this article is a great example of defensive reputation laundering. ToxTik are probably stockpiling self- congratulatory fluff like this in preparation to fight off any attempt at regulation.

#ReputationLaundering #TikTok #SocialMedia

#CitationsNeeded pod

"[W]e are joined by Kaleem Hawa to discuss David K Kirkpatrick's 10,000 word PR job that feigns criticism of #Biden officials, but ultimately serves to distance them from the horrors of #Gaza."

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-very-serious-new-yorker-article-launders-biden-officials-responsibly-for-gaza-genocide
#USpol #USpolitics #Palestine #GazaGenocide #NewYorker #media #USmedia #MSM #mediaCriticism #liberalImperialism #BlueMAGA #reputationLaundering #shitlibs

#CitationsNeeded pod

"[W]e are joined by Kaleem Hawa to discuss David K Kirkpatrick's 10,000 word PR job that feigns criticism of #Biden officials, but ultimately serves to distance them from the horrors of #Gaza."

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-very-serious-new-yorker-article-launders-biden-officials-responsibly-for-gaza-genocide
#USpol #USpolitics #Palestine #GazaGenocide #NewYorker #media #USmedia #MSM #mediaCriticism #liberalImperialism #BlueMAGA #reputationLaundering #shitlibs

#CitationsNeeded pod

"[W]e are joined by Kaleem Hawa to discuss David K Kirkpatrick's 10,000 word PR job that feigns criticism of #Biden officials, but ultimately serves to distance them from the horrors of #Gaza."

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-very-serious-new-yorker-article-launders-biden-officials-responsibly-for-gaza-genocide
#USpol #USpolitics #Palestine #GazaGenocide #NewYorker #media #USmedia #MSM #mediaCriticism #liberalImperialism #BlueMAGA #reputationLaundering #shitlibs

#CitationsNeeded pod

"[W]e are joined by Kaleem Hawa to discuss David K Kirkpatrick's 10,000 word PR job that feigns criticism of #Biden officials, but ultimately serves to distance them from the horrors of #Gaza."

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-very-serious-new-yorker-article-launders-biden-officials-responsibly-for-gaza-genocide
#USpol #USpolitics #Palestine #GazaGenocide #NewYorker #media #USmedia #MSM #mediaCriticism #liberalImperialism #BlueMAGA #reputationLaundering #shitlibs

#CitationsNeeded pod

"[W]e are joined by Kaleem Hawa to discuss David K Kirkpatrick's 10,000 word PR job that feigns criticism of #Biden officials, but ultimately serves to distance them from the horrors of #Gaza."

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-very-serious-new-yorker-article-launders-biden-officials-responsibly-for-gaza-genocide
#USpol #USpolitics #Palestine #GazaGenocide #NewYorker #media #USmedia #MSM #mediaCriticism #liberalImperialism #BlueMAGA #reputationLaundering #shitlibs

KFC

I've just read a post around British politics by a respectable account that ticks boxes for it functioning as "Defence of the slime".

Somewhat boggled.

Though a widely respected journalist unknowingly or knowingly laundered Elon Musk's reputation in an article in The Atlantic. Based on the thinnest of threads.

And so many of the (non-space exploration) accounts I was following expressed delight and offered congratulations to India when its moon mission succeeded.
#ReputationLaundering

KFC

I've just read a post around British politics by a respectable account that ticks boxes for it functioning as "Defence of the slime".

Somewhat boggled.

Though a widely respected journalist unknowingly or knowingly laundered Elon Musk's reputation in an article in The Atlantic. Based on the thinnest of threads.

And so many of the (non-space exploration) accounts I was following expressed delight and offered congratulations to India when its moon mission succeeded.
#ReputationLaundering

KFC

I've just read a post around British politics by a respectable account that ticks boxes for it functioning as "Defence of the slime".

Somewhat boggled.

Though a widely respected journalist unknowingly or knowingly laundered Elon Musk's reputation in an article in The Atlantic. Based on the thinnest of threads.

And so many of the (non-space exploration) accounts I was following expressed delight and offered congratulations to India when its moon mission succeeded.
#ReputationLaundering

KFC

I've just read a post around British politics by a respectable account that ticks boxes for it functioning as "Defence of the slime".

Somewhat boggled.

Though a widely respected journalist unknowingly or knowingly laundered Elon Musk's reputation in an article in The Atlantic. Based on the thinnest of threads.

And so many of the (non-space exploration) accounts I was following expressed delight and offered congratulations to India when its moon mission succeeded.
#ReputationLaundering

KFC

I've just read a post around British politics by a respectable account that ticks boxes for it functioning as "Defence of the slime".

Somewhat boggled.

Though a widely respected journalist unknowingly or knowingly laundered Elon Musk's reputation in an article in The Atlantic. Based on the thinnest of threads.

And so many of the (non-space exploration) accounts I was following expressed delight and offered congratulations to India when its moon mission succeeded.
#ReputationLaundering

Tucker Carlson reaches for credibility?

Has he got Paul Manafort doing reputation laundering for him?

Maybe buy a golf tour like the bone-saw prince?

Or an article gets written about Tucker in The Atlantic? Like Elon Musk.
#PaulManafort #ReputationLaundering #MBS #BoneSawKingdom #BoneSawGolf #AnneApplebaum

Tucker Carlson reaches for credibility?

Has he got Paul Manafort doing reputation laundering for him?

Maybe buy a golf tour like the bone-saw prince?

Or an article gets written about Tucker in The Atlantic? Like Elon Musk.
#PaulManafort #ReputationLaundering #MBS #BoneSawKingdom #BoneSawGolf #AnneApplebaum

Tucker Carlson reaches for credibility?

Has he got Paul Manafort doing reputation laundering for him?

Maybe buy a golf tour like the bone-saw prince?

Or an article gets written about Tucker in The Atlantic? Like Elon Musk.
#PaulManafort #ReputationLaundering #MBS #BoneSawKingdom #BoneSawGolf #AnneApplebaum

Tucker Carlson reaches for credibility?

Has he got Paul Manafort doing reputation laundering for him?

Maybe buy a golf tour like the bone-saw prince?

Or an article gets written about Tucker in The Atlantic? Like Elon Musk.
#PaulManafort #ReputationLaundering #MBS #BoneSawKingdom #BoneSawGolf #AnneApplebaum

Tucker Carlson reaches for credibility?

Has he got Paul Manafort doing reputation laundering for him?

Maybe buy a golf tour like the bone-saw prince?

Or an article gets written about Tucker in The Atlantic? Like Elon Musk.
#PaulManafort #ReputationLaundering #MBS #BoneSawKingdom #BoneSawGolf #AnneApplebaum

The cunning of the Free Speech Onion methodology is hard to fully appreciate, unless you've spent decades working in independent media, learning to identify and filter out reputation laundering and NewSpeak ("PR"). Or perhaps spent a similar length of time as an anticorporate activist or campaigner against other forms of military-industrial power.

They're very good at sounding reasonable and balanced, while framing debates in ways that support their biases.

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#PR #ReputationLaundering

The cunning of the Free Speech Onion methodology is hard to fully appreciate, unless you've spent decades working in independent media, learning to identify and filter out reputation laundering and NewSpeak ("PR"). Or perhaps spent a similar length of time as an anticorporate activist or campaigner against other forms of military-industrial power.

They're very good at sounding reasonable and balanced, while framing debates in ways that support their biases.

(4/?)

#PR #ReputationLaundering

The cunning of the Free Speech Onion methodology is hard to fully appreciate, unless you've spent decades working in independent media, learning to identify and filter out reputation laundering and NewSpeak ("PR"). Or perhaps spent a similar length of time as an anticorporate activist or campaigner against other forms of military-industrial power.

They're very good at sounding reasonable and balanced, while framing debates in ways that support their biases.

(4/?)

#PR #ReputationLaundering

The cunning of the Free Speech Onion methodology is hard to fully appreciate, unless you've spent decades working in independent media, learning to identify and filter out reputation laundering and NewSpeak ("PR"). Or perhaps spent a similar length of time as an anticorporate activist or campaigner against other forms of military-industrial power.

They're very good at sounding reasonable and balanced, while framing debates in ways that support their biases.

(4/?)

#PR #ReputationLaundering

Beware of reputation laundering! Looks like the DataFarmers have paid some marketing pod people to try to co-opt the phrase 'Social Web' to include the legacy social media platforms it's being built as a replacement for. Or some pod people just decided there's money to be made in doing that off their own bat, but they're usually not that forward-looking;

https://socialwebtactics.com/what-is-the-social-web/

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#ReputationLaundering #SocialWeb #SocialWebTactics

Beware of reputation laundering! Looks like the DataFarmers have paid some marketing pod people to try to co-opt the phrase 'Social Web' to include the legacy social media platforms it's being built as a replacement for. Or some pod people just decided there's money to be made in doing that off their own bat, but they're usually not that forward-looking;

https://socialwebtactics.com/what-is-the-social-web/

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#ReputationLaundering #SocialWeb #SocialWebTactics

Beware of reputation laundering! Looks like the DataFarmers have paid some marketing pod people to try to co-opt the phrase 'Social Web' to include the legacy social media platforms it's being built as a replacement for. Or some pod people just decided there's money to be made in doing that off their own bat, but they're usually not that forward-looking;

https://socialwebtactics.com/what-is-the-social-web/

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#ReputationLaundering #SocialWeb #SocialWebTactics

Beware of reputation laundering! Looks like the DataFarmers have paid some marketing pod people to try to co-opt the phrase 'Social Web' to include the legacy social media platforms it's being built as a replacement for. Or some pod people just decided there's money to be made in doing that off their own bat, but they're usually not that forward-looking;

https://socialwebtactics.com/what-is-the-social-web/

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#ReputationLaundering #SocialWeb #SocialWebTactics

🚨 NEW THREAT INTEL REPORT: A football sponsorship isn’t always what it seems. ⚽
Our latest research uncovers how Felix Markets used sports to launder legitimacy for a fraudulent investment platform.

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/fake-investment-platform-reputation-laundering-felix-markets

#ReputationLaundering #BrandProtection #ScamAlert

🚨 NEW THREAT INTEL REPORT: A football sponsorship isn’t always what it seems. ⚽
Our latest research uncovers how Felix Markets used sports to launder legitimacy for a fraudulent investment platform.

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/fake-investment-platform-reputation-laundering-felix-markets

#ReputationLaundering #BrandProtection #ScamAlert

🚨 NEW THREAT INTEL REPORT: A football sponsorship isn’t always what it seems. ⚽
Our latest research uncovers how Felix Markets used sports to launder legitimacy for a fraudulent investment platform.

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/fake-investment-platform-reputation-laundering-felix-markets

#ReputationLaundering #BrandProtection #ScamAlert

🚨 NEW THREAT INTEL REPORT: A football sponsorship isn’t always what it seems. ⚽
Our latest research uncovers how Felix Markets used sports to launder legitimacy for a fraudulent investment platform.

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/fake-investment-platform-reputation-laundering-felix-markets

#ReputationLaundering #BrandProtection #ScamAlert

@Bot4Sale

LOL

This is the PM photographed in a fucking Rio Tinto hi-vis shirt, whose gov has approved more and more fossil fuels projects.

There may be some good stuff in the new laws - or maybe not - but this article reeks of being spin doctorrng, perception management.

Where is the actual analysis of the fucking legislation?

#ReputationLaundering #InsidetJournalism #PerceptionManagement

@Bot4Sale

LOL

This is the PM photographed in a fucking Rio Tinto hi-vis shirt, whose gov has approved more and more fossil fuels projects.

There may be some good stuff in the new laws - or maybe not - but this article reeks of being spin doctorrng, perception management.

Where is the actual analysis of the fucking legislation?

#ReputationLaundering #InsidetJournalism #PerceptionManagement

@Bot4Sale

LOL

This is the PM photographed in a fucking Rio Tinto hi-vis shirt, whose gov has approved more and more fossil fuels projects.

There may be some good stuff in the new laws - or maybe not - but this article reeks of being spin doctorrng, perception management.

Where is the actual analysis of the fucking legislation?

#ReputationLaundering #InsidetJournalism #PerceptionManagement

@Bot4Sale

LOL

This is the PM photographed in a fucking Rio Tinto hi-vis shirt, whose gov has approved more and more fossil fuels projects.

There may be some good stuff in the new laws - or maybe not - but this article reeks of being spin doctorrng, perception management.

Where is the actual analysis of the fucking legislation?

#ReputationLaundering #InsidetJournalism #PerceptionManagement

@Bot4Sale

LOL

This is the PM photographed in a fucking Rio Tinto hi-vis shirt, whose gov has approved more and more fossil fuels projects.

There may be some good stuff in the new laws - or maybe not - but this article reeks of being spin doctorrng, perception management.

Where is the actual analysis of the fucking legislation?

#ReputationLaundering #InsidetJournalism #PerceptionManagement

@RonSupportsYou @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Netanyahu's got an "8th front" going - he's looking to do #ReputationLaundering and convince folk that it wasn't genocide but instead that the slaughter and starvation of innocents was legal.

People pay an aweful lot to get their reputation laundered. Countries who've done genocide probably a whole lot more.
#TomNicols might not even know that he's doing $Hasbara
Here's #AnneApplebaum, also at #TheAtlantic. Maybe also unaware.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

@RonSupportsYou @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Netanyahu's got an "8th front" going - he's looking to do #ReputationLaundering and convince folk that it wasn't genocide but instead that the slaughter and starvation of innocents was legal.

People pay an aweful lot to get their reputation laundered. Countries who've done genocide probably a whole lot more.
#TomNicols might not even know that he's doing $Hasbara
Here's #AnneApplebaum, also at #TheAtlantic. Maybe also unaware.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

@RonSupportsYou @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Netanyahu's got an "8th front" going - he's looking to do #ReputationLaundering and convince folk that it wasn't genocide but instead that the slaughter and starvation of innocents was legal.

People pay an aweful lot to get their reputation laundered. Countries who've done genocide probably a whole lot more.
#TomNicols might not even know that he's doing $Hasbara
Here's #AnneApplebaum, also at #TheAtlantic. Maybe also unaware.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

@RonSupportsYou @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Netanyahu's got an "8th front" going - he's looking to do #ReputationLaundering and convince folk that it wasn't genocide but instead that the slaughter and starvation of innocents was legal.

People pay an aweful lot to get their reputation laundered. Countries who've done genocide probably a whole lot more.
#TomNicols might not even know that he's doing $Hasbara
Here's #AnneApplebaum, also at #TheAtlantic. Maybe also unaware.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

@RonSupportsYou @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Netanyahu's got an "8th front" going - he's looking to do #ReputationLaundering and convince folk that it wasn't genocide but instead that the slaughter and starvation of innocents was legal.

People pay an aweful lot to get their reputation laundered. Countries who've done genocide probably a whole lot more.
#TomNicols might not even know that he's doing $Hasbara
Here's #AnneApplebaum, also at #TheAtlantic. Maybe also unaware.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."

#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising

His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.

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#podcasts #TheSpinoff #TheFold #ReputationLaundering

"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."

#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising

His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.

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#podcasts #TheSpinoff #TheFold #ReputationLaundering

"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."

#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising

His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.

(1/2)

#podcasts #TheSpinoff #TheFold #ReputationLaundering

"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."

#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising

His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.

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#podcasts #TheSpinoff #TheFold #ReputationLaundering

@SydneyJim

#MikeWirth's wikipedia entry.

(I note an absence of emphasis on Mike's complicity in high greenhouse gas emmissions. I suspect #ReputationLaundering for profit is in play.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wirth

@SydneyJim

#MikeWirth's wikipedia entry.

(I note an absence of emphasis on Mike's complicity in high greenhouse gas emmissions. I suspect #ReputationLaundering for profit is in play.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wirth

@SydneyJim

#MikeWirth's wikipedia entry.

(I note an absence of emphasis on Mike's complicity in high greenhouse gas emmissions. I suspect #ReputationLaundering for profit is in play.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wirth

@SydneyJim

#MikeWirth's wikipedia entry.

(I note an absence of emphasis on Mike's complicity in high greenhouse gas emmissions. I suspect #ReputationLaundering for profit is in play.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wirth

@SydneyJim

#MikeWirth's wikipedia entry.

(I note an absence of emphasis on Mike's complicity in high greenhouse gas emmissions. I suspect #ReputationLaundering for profit is in play.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wirth

@feralferment

I read the 2002 piece by #AnneApplebaum.

GenAI would do better. [cringe]

Post linked below is centred on another article Applebaum wrote. It functioned as #ReputationLaundering for #Musk.

Is this #BoutiqueJournalism?

https://mastodon.social/@skua/111049712727241218

@feralferment

I read the 2002 piece by #AnneApplebaum.

GenAI would do better. [cringe]

Post linked below is centred on another article Applebaum wrote. It functioned as #ReputationLaundering for #Musk.

Is this #BoutiqueJournalism?

https://mastodon.social/@skua/111049712727241218

@feralferment

I read the 2002 piece by #AnneApplebaum.

GenAI would do better. [cringe]

Post linked below is centred on another article Applebaum wrote. It functioned as #ReputationLaundering for #Musk.

Is this #BoutiqueJournalism?

https://mastodon.social/@skua/111049712727241218

@feralferment

I read the 2002 piece by #AnneApplebaum.

GenAI would do better. [cringe]

Post linked below is centred on another article Applebaum wrote. It functioned as #ReputationLaundering for #Musk.

Is this #BoutiqueJournalism?

https://mastodon.social/@skua/111049712727241218

@feralferment

I read the 2002 piece by #AnneApplebaum.

GenAI would do better. [cringe]

Post linked below is centred on another article Applebaum wrote. It functioned as #ReputationLaundering for #Musk.

Is this #BoutiqueJournalism?

https://mastodon.social/@skua/111049712727241218