Surveillance pricing ought to be outlawed, and there should never be a time you are compelled to be surveilled just to buy something.
Tag: online marketing
2 things can be true at once, kids and phones discourse edition.
Two things or multiple things can be true at once. Social media is toxic, and kids should have access to phone service.
Youtube allows ads that make a really great argument for the government to crack down on this stuff.
These bonkers eyeglasses commercials aren’t even the worst commercials I’ve seen on Youtube, but a lot of these ads are great arguments for government regulation that’s unfortunately not happening. Ever since I was getting new glasses recently, which involved a multiple trips to eye care over a couple of months in order to get it […]
The Wellness Company is right-wing, and pushes covid quackery including anti-vax crap.
Deregulation of supplements has funded the right-wing greatly, so much so some think that regulating it would go a long way toward defeating the far right.
Pulling back the curtain on fake testimonials.
“More Google Review Extortion” because this channel has multiple examples of evidence of extortion operations using google reviews.
Scare tactics in online ads.
Online marketing is a mess. I’ve been seeing a lot of scammy commercials online.
These “dire wolf” animals sound like the wolf version of rose bushes that get fancy stuff grafted on.
“They are using the attention economy to drive up the value of their company.” – Johannes Vogel, Director General of the Berlin’s Museum of Natural History
Anyone citing pandemic profiteering anonymous accounts on the app formerly known as twitter should stop.
Anonymous covid influencer accounts on “X” (twitter) who post affiliate links to bogus & junk covid products should be dumped as information sources of any kind.
Don’t shove dubious stuff up your nose, just put on an N95 mask.
“Unproven products can seem attractive, especially when social media marketing overhypes potential benefits, without mention of risks or uncertainties.” – Kaitlin Sundling
Online troll farm mercenaries to be hired by US government to police speech online.
There are operatives celebrating a boon in their job market.
Info cocoons and the fired IRS worker saying that silly comment about thinking Trump had “business acumen” .
The fired IRS worker thought Trump had “business acumen” because he was in an info cocoon. He probably watched The Apprentice and believed it was reality not just a fictionalized reality tv show. He was likely well situated enough during the first Trump term to not pay much attention to politics. Many people, even government workers, ignore […]
Many will be following the politics, not the science.
Many scientists, medical professionals, and public health leadership followed the politics when it came to masks in the pandemic, or vaccines, and even were swayed by right-wing advertising that targeted liberals. And all this will only get worse now that the federal purse in the US is held out for those who are willing to sell out patients and public health.
Trendy nicotine and the content creator gig economy indirect marketing landscape.
They have complete deniability about their audience capture in chasing clicks.
Online communities centered around products, services, or investments are a threat to money, time, and social networks.
I recommend watching this youtube documentary about Bed Bath & Beyond memestock community it’s sad and fascinating and unfortunately all too familiar because this type of thing seems to be widespread.
FBI hopeful Kash Patel promoted misinfo fueled covid product.
The marketing claim promoting this quacky covid product is that it can “reverse” the effects of covid vaccines is based on misinformation claiming wrongly that the vaccines are giving people some type of damage based on things that don’t even make sense.
Radios are a good thing to have. Devices that require cell service are cell phones and are not the same as radios.
I keep seeing commercials for “rapid radios” where they are trying to pitch these “walkie talkie” type devices as radios that can reach across the country. This is misleading nonsense.
“If you’re not the one paying, you’re not the customer.”
It’s really problematic that so often good information is behind paywalls, and disinformation is of course made free, for maximum spread for deceit.
Elite gambling in the stock market is a threat to public health.
RFK Jr. is a threat to public health, but elites gambling with healthcare on the stock market is also a threat to public health. NBC NEWS – Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS The stocks fell in the final hour of trading as reports emerged about Trump’s expected pick. […]
Misinformation and pseudoscience may take over every online space.
This is a huge problem.
The disinfo campaigns around the pandemic are the same disinfo campaigns around climate change.
It’s part of a whole disinformation economy.
