Hacker News with Generative AI: Public Relations

How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta (theverge.com)
Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her memoir about working at the company as a policy director. Now, she’s fighting back.
Meta, Social Media, Public Relations, Lawsuits, Books
50 points by CrypticShift 12 days ago | 41 comments
Meta's Response to Explosive Tell-All Is Ripped from a Familiar PR Playbook (vanityfair.com)
Meta’s formidable public relations apparatus whirred to life this week, as details of a salacious new tell-all memoir about the company and its top executives hit shelves Tuesday.
Meta, Public Relations, Business, Social Media, Lawsuits
17 points by rmason 18 days ago | 0 comments
Meta's Response to Explosive Tell-All Is Ripped from a Familiar PR Playbook (vanityfair.com)
Meta’s formidable public relations apparatus whirred to life this week, as details of a salacious new tell-all memoir about the company and its top executives hit shelves Tuesday.
Meta, Public Relations, Business, Social Media, Technology
13 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 days ago | 0 comments
UnitedHealth Hires Defamation Firm over Social Media Posts (bloomberglaw.com)
UnitedHealth Group Inc. has hired a prominent defamation law firm to counter what it sees as inaccurate and irresponsible social media posts about the company’s practices.
Healthcare, Law, Social Media, Public Relations
18 points by ceejayoz 55 days ago | 8 comments
LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda (techdirt.com)
Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times, has been promising to restore trust in media over the last few months. Instead, he has launched an escalating campaign of editorial interference that accomplishes exactly the opposite.
Media, Politics, Journalism, Public Relations, Propaganda
115 points by hn_acker 60 days ago | 12 comments
Musk to PG: Don’t be a retard who believes bogus polls (twitter.com)
Twitter, Elon Musk, Public Relations
13 points by andromaton 76 days ago | 18 comments
Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (reddit.com)
Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (self.redscarepod)
Healthcare, Business, Transparency, Public Relations
101 points by paganel 117 days ago | 114 comments
Charitable Contributions – Matt Mullenweg (ma.tt)
I knew going to war with Silver Lake, a $102B private equity firm, they would pull out every dirty trick to try to smear my name, do oppo research, imply I’m a mafia boss trying to extort them, etc.
Charitable Contributions, Business, Legal Disputes, Public Relations
10 points by trvr 188 days ago | 0 comments
Google says AI Olympics ad 'tested well' before inspiring outrage (gizmodo.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations
32 points by rntn 241 days ago | 57 comments
'Not stranded in space': how NASA lost control of Boeing Starliner narrative (theguardian.com)
Space Exploration, NASA, Boeing, Public Relations
9 points by howard941 241 days ago | 3 comments
CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher (bbc.com)
Cybersecurity, Business, Controversy, Public Relations
10 points by wood_spirit 251 days ago | 1 comments
Elon Musk's X has lost its only PR employee (qz.com)
Elon Musk, Public Relations, Social Media
20 points by f38zf5vdt 300 days ago | 2 comments
Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' (theverge.com)
Apple, Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations
667 points by linguae 327 days ago | 1518 comments