This past day in national and local media across the United States:

Actually, it's getting a lot smaller. There are loads of layoffs and parts of the company are being shut down fast.

This is what people see as "news":

Misinformation.

Are readers made aware of the conflict of interest?

This goes a very long way back:

That never ended:

But facts don't matter when you control and command the media, propping up your "worth" based on lies:

Summary: Without as much as a very basic disclosure, Motley Fool, part of MSN (M for Microsoft) [1, 2, 3, 4], is trying to prop up the layoffs giant Microsoft in a pump-and-dump-like move that has become so predictable in Microsoft-controlled media