Project Veritas Suspends All Operations
I hope the former members of ACORN are enjoying a celebratory drink right now.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-project-veritas-suspends-all-operations-amid-devastating-layoffs-and-fundraising-struggles/Open linkView original on lemmy.world322
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They'll just return under a new "untainted" name and do it all over again.
Just ask the folks at
Cambridge AnalyticaEmerdataOr the boys at “Arther Andersen,” the accounting firm in the Enron scandal, nowadays known as “Accenture”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
And Blackwater is forever stained with the blood of innocents. But Academi is totally fine guys.
Don’t forget they were Xe for a couple years too.
And Avalon Securities.
And Xhitter
The accounting wing died. Accenture was spun off from the consulting wing, which should never have existed in the first place. Tim Hallett gives a really good breakdown of the shitshow in this article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229483938_Symbolic_Power_and_Organizational_Culture
Thanks for that link!
Accenture actually split off from Arthur Anderson just a little bit before the Enron scandal. It was incredibly lucky timing, since the Arthur Anderson name took a complete shit, but Accenture was able to thrive.
As much as I hate CA. Its like the third time I've seen them mentioned this morning. Were they in the news or did something happen?
"Emerdata" is bad French for "shitty data".
This. They should have been arrested and had the book thrown at them when they trespassed in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office and attempted to wire tap her phones.
I'd like to remind all of those being laid off that this is an organization that has ceased operations due to lack of funding. Do they have enough money to pay a lawyer to enforce their NDA?
They will because the vultures who run these types of organizations and would be hurt by the information coming out always have money stashed in other companies or personal accounts.
Why use personal money when you can essentially blackmail your wealthy backers into defending you.
There's always money in the
banana standCayman Islands"Veritas" means "truth!"
"We fixed the glitch - The whole thing will just work itself out naturally!"
Samwise.bmp
But what about second severance
That was Pippin.
Pippin was laid off last year.
Misinformation machine mismanaged and in post mortem.
Rest In piss.
I love how the ppl they contacted were like "you morons fired me a month ago".
It's all one big grift. Millions missing.🤷♂️
Oh, I missed this. I'm shocked. Shocked and apalled.
Gosh, that's such a shame. Sad face.
In all seriousness, it's sad that O'Queefe has not spent some time in prison for his activities.
Or at least caught a beating or two.
Good riddance.
“The organization used to thrive and prosper. It’s truly sad to see what can happen to great opportunities with a surplus of resources when the wrong people are in power.”
People don’t know the difference between “to thrive and prosper” versus “launder and hide” money.
Ah yes, time for the election year rebrand.
It's good to see this blatant partisan propaganda organization go down the shitter.
Good riddance.
Man, this is awesome. Hopefully all involved can find honest work to do now.
Spoiler, they won't. They'll go work for some right wing spin propaganda company or roll out new versions of the same bad faith, likely illegal, operation.
I know… but I don’t want to celebrate people losing their jobs (unless they are CEO’s or board members of almost any corporation) - the only way I could think to do that in this situation is to hope they get a job where they can contribute to society in a positive way.
I celebrate them losing their jobs and I hope their dreams are crushed. They should suffer for all the damage they have done to civil discourse in my country. I have no sympathy at all for them.
Not even the video editor?
especially no sympathy for the video editor. If there was anyone in that organization who knows the scope of their lies, it's the video editor. That person took raw video and intentionally filtered it into misleading lies. Fuck that person in particular.
Ok fair enough
But what about the audio editor? The only thing she or he did was mix some clutter out, cut and paste some partial sentences to *checks notes * clarify the message and maybe add some funky intro music
Stop this. You know it’s silly to defend these people and that anyone with any morality is breathing a sigh of relief they no longer have to be part of this scummy org.
No one worked for Project Veritas without buying into their mission. According to their 2021 Form 990, they had 59 employees and spent north of 6m on salaries. James okeef was the highest paid at 396k.
These people were well compensated for years to do illegal and immoral things. Do not pity them. Save that energy for the people whose lives they've destroyed. They got Acorn shut down, which employed a bunch of people across a lot of communities doing actual good work.
Don't worry. The executives kept their jobs.
I love your attitude! Never change Scooter… ❤️
Hopefully none of them can find any work.
Rest in hell
Rest In Piss would be more appropriate but I reckon some of them might find this wish enjoyable.
Let them rot in hell where they deserve
They had journalist to let go? 🤔
They use the term loosely.
Oh no!
Anyway
May they all also contract a disease inshallah