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A $1.5M 'women-led' NFT project was run by dudes (inputmag.com)
26 points by legrande on Aug 15, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


It's bound to happen. Those who are easily manipulated by propaganda are easily manipulated by other people.


Using the blockchain we can create NFTs that guarantee the authenticity of tokens minted by your phoney Russian scam artists.


Unrelated, I appreciate how fast this page loaded.


>These guys are just cynically exploiting the Western, left-liberal agenda of protecting female rights and stuff like that

>I believe these guys understand Western society pretty well, and that’s why they can manipulate us easily.

I've gotten quotes on Telegram from various marketing teams (It is easy to build a network there if you launch any project or community in the crypto space), and one or two of them are legitimate, getting their catalogue of capabilities is fascinating:

A campaign taking advantage of Western Leftist ideas? check

A campaign taking advantage of Western Rightwing ideas? check

Come on you've seen the headlines for all of that, its been a whole decade now we can stop feigning surprise, what you might not know is that the same groups are well versed in things like

Political campaigns of almost every country. US, European countries, India, any party

Campaigns for NGOs

and more

Probably the most hilarious thing out of all of this is that doing campaigns for crypto projects is the most lucrative and immediately profitable with unlimited upside, while being the most informal


I really think that most people, even those in tech, are blind to how easily the world can be manipulated as long as it's not a threat to corporate profits.

If your propaganda campaign lines the pockets of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, then they are open for business. Also, if the company refuses the business by banning propaganda accounts or creating special rules for who can advertise, then they have entered the political arena.

It's not very expensive to force a meme.




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