The datacenter industry is using propaganda to fight opposition | Samuel Woolley, Dean Jackson and Maia Woluchem
Big tech has used misdirection, disinformation and jargon to obscure the harm the facilities can cause to communities“Antifa”. “Commies”. “Chinese bots”. Everyone from tech leaders to the president has called datacenter resistance a “documented psyop” and a “Chinese PR thing”.But why do they make these claims? Our new research finds that the datacenter industry uses propaganda, disinformation, and information control…
Big tech has used misdirection, disinformation and jargon to obscure the harm the facilities can cause to communities“Antifa”. “Commies”. “Chinese bots”. Everyone from tech leaders to the president has called datacenter resistance a “documented psyop” and a “Chinese PR thing”.But why do they make these claims? Our new research finds that the datacenter industry uses propaganda, disinformation, and information control…
