Thats so interesting. Ive wonder out loud before (here on this substack) what the hell was up with TOGETHERs media machine. How do you manage, as a scientific investigation, to gather such a media storm? How do you make it to my google news feed every week? It was as if their grant included a budget for a ten person PR and social media management team; rather unusual for a scientific project id say.
Now seeing this; that it was infact majority funded with the explicit aim to to score PR brownie points... things make a little more sense. Also it creates a rather strong motive to steer the conclusions id say. If this is a vehicle to keep CNN / NYT pushing regular articles about how great TOGETHER was (and by extension the FTX foundation and SBF), itd be a little awkward to reward them by slapping them in the face and contradicting them on the horse dewormer narrative they had settled on.
Thanks for this very interesting research!
Any chance that the lawsuit with force disclosure of the data?
Thats so interesting. Ive wonder out loud before (here on this substack) what the hell was up with TOGETHERs media machine. How do you manage, as a scientific investigation, to gather such a media storm? How do you make it to my google news feed every week? It was as if their grant included a budget for a ten person PR and social media management team; rather unusual for a scientific project id say.
Now seeing this; that it was infact majority funded with the explicit aim to to score PR brownie points... things make a little more sense. Also it creates a rather strong motive to steer the conclusions id say. If this is a vehicle to keep CNN / NYT pushing regular articles about how great TOGETHER was (and by extension the FTX foundation and SBF), itd be a little awkward to reward them by slapping them in the face and contradicting them on the horse dewormer narrative they had settled on.