Hacker News with Generative AI: Public Relations

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.
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.
Musk to PG: Don’t be a retard who believes bogus polls (twitter.com)
Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (reddit.com)
Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (self.redscarepod)
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.
Google says AI Olympics ad 'tested well' before inspiring outrage (gizmodo.com)
'Not stranded in space': how NASA lost control of Boeing Starliner narrative (theguardian.com)
CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher (bbc.com)
Elon Musk's X has lost its only PR employee (qz.com)
Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' (theverge.com)