Guides tagged dystopia
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Words Invented by PR Firms: 10 Revenue enhancement tax increases developed by Reagan administration to avoid the word tax
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1984, the Reagan administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a directive instructing federal agencies to replace the word “tax” …
Words Invented by PR Firms: 09 Regulatory flexibility removing consumer protections developed by industry lobbying groups
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2018, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) replaced the phrase "consumer protection" with "regulatory flexibility" in its official…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 08 Extraordinary rendition kidnapping and torture by proxy developed by CIA legal counsel
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2002, the CIA paid Poland’s intelligence service $15 million to host a secret prison where at least one detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was wat…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 07 Quantitative easing printing money and giving it to banks term developed by central bankers
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 2008 and 2015, the U.S. Federal Reserve created $3.5 trillion in new money and handed it directly to banks—without congressional approval, wi…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 06 Rightsizing further sanitization of mass layoffs when downsizing became negatively associated
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1987, the Public Relations Society of America awarded its Silver Anvil—the industry’s highest honor—to Hill & Knowlton for coining the term "r…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 05 Downsizing mass layoffs coined by management consultants in 1970s
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1981, the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company advised General Electric to replace the word "layoff" with "downsizing" in its interna…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 04 Ethnic cleansing genocide term emerged during Yugoslav wars as deliberate euphemism
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1992, the term "ethnic cleansing" was not coined by human rights lawyers, journalists, or survivors of the Bosnian war—it was crafted by a Washing…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 03 Friendly fire killing your own soldiers sanitized from fratricide
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1994, the U.S. Department of Defense classified its own internal report on friendly fire incidents, despite the document concluding that 24% of Am…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 02 Enhanced interrogation torture term developed by CIA to avoid Geneva Convention applicability
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2002, the CIA’s Office of Medical Services warned in an internal memo that waterboarding—a technique it later rebranded as "enhanced interrogation…
Words Invented by PR Firms: 01 Collateral damage civilian deaths caused by military action coined to replace civilian casualties
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1999, the U.S. Department of Defense paid the RAND Corporation $1.5 million to study how to rebrand civilian deaths in war. The resulting report, …
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 30 2023 state attorney general lawsuits revealed internal documents showing deliberate design to maximi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2019, Facebook’s internal research found that 13.5% of U.K. teen girls said Instagram made their suicidal thoughts worse. The company’s own docume…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 29 2023 congressional testimony revealed company had research showing social comparison features caused
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2019, Meta’s internal research found that Instagram’s "social comparison" features—likes, follower counts, and algorithmic ranking—caused measurab…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 28 2022 internal documents showed Instagram algorithm recommended anorexia content to users who engaged
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In September 2021, an internal Instagram study found that its algorithm recommended anorexia-related content to 1 in 5 users who engaged with diet or…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 27 2022 research showed WhatsApp being used to coordinate ethnic violence in India one team member assi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In June 2018, a Facebook researcher assigned to monitor WhatsApp in India wrote in an internal memo that the platform was being used to "coordinate a…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 26 2022 internal documents showed company knew advertising to children under 13 was occurring despite s
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In June 2021, Meta’s internal research found that 12.6% of Instagram accounts belonging to users under 13 were actively engaging with advertising—des…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 25 2021 internal research showed political content suppression after 2020 election hurt publisher reven
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In August 2021, an internal Facebook (now Meta) research team found that suppressing political content after the 2020 U.S. election had reduced publi…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 24 2021 documents revealed Facebook knew its own fact-checking program was ineffective and maintained i
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2021, a Facebook internal memo titled "Fact-Checking at Scale: An Integrity Systems Deep Dive" concluded that the company’s third-party fact…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 23 2021 internal research showed adolescent users were being targeted by predators through recommendati
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In August 2020, Facebook’s internal research found that its recommendation algorithms were actively pushing content to adolescent users that increase…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 22 2021 documents showed company knew human trafficking was being facilitated through its platforms
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In October 2019, Facebook’s own internal research team concluded that its platforms—including Instagram and WhatsApp—were being used to facilitate hu…
What Facebook Knew Before Congress Asked: 21 2021 internal research found only 3-5 percent of hate speech was being successfully removed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2021, Facebook’s own internal research found that its systems were removing only 3-5% of hate speech on the platform. The company’s public c…