Comment by pydry
10 hours ago
I remember after the Brexit vote (i.e. years before anything actually changed) there was a rash of British companies who clearly would have gone bankrupt anyway blaming their ailing fortunes on Brexit.
There is remarkably little pushback on company narratives about layoffs or ailing economic fortunes from journalists which is weird because it's more normal that they are not truthful.
The Brexit vote is nothing like this though. AI is probably the biggest corporate gaslighting exercise I've ever seen in my entire life.
This is a symptom of a shifting media landscape. The tech industry press and the American press generally speaking are stunningly corrupt.
There were some remarkable claims made about Brexit. The best I can recall was a bus company closing a local bus route "because of Brexit", an year or two after the vote and therefore years before it actually happened.
Also very common to blame things on health and safety, GDPR, etc.