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Fake News, Propaganda, and Misinformation: Microsoft Investing Money It Does Not Have in "Hey Hi" (for "Entertainment Purposes" Only)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 11, 2026

History's lesson(s):

Tulip mania

Propaganda is difficult to confront without giving exposure or air time or "oxygen" to lies. Propaganda is often refuted without a link or mention, instead stating again what is known to be true. So pardon us for avoiding links or not quoting what we rebut - as we did in January 2025 when we saw similar Microsoft propaganda (we were later vindicated; what we said turned out to be true only months later).

Many people conflate "companies that pay well" with "companies that do well" (economically). Well, Microsoft is now culling its best-paid staff. One might therefore conclude that Microsoft is not doing well.

If only corporate media bothered explaining how VCs work and what debt means, in practice, to people who claim to own, run, or found some company...

Microsoft is very deep in debt, which continues to grow. Microsoft is failing to pay back the debt in spite of tens of thousands of layoffs, especially in places where staff is paid well. What does this tell us?

The new lie/propaganda line from Microsoft (MSFT) is, "we invest [number omitted] billion in hey hi" (obviously false; we're talking about almost a trillion dollars here!). We'll need to rebut this each time they say this, albeit without giving a platform to the lie. This is Microsoft's excuse/distraction from mass layoffs (they pretend to be super-affluent by virtue of claiming to "invest" money they don't even have).

And "again," an associate weighed in, "for rebuttal see the earlier circular investment diagram" (reproduced here). Well, circular investment or circular financing is just another (glorified) form of accounting fraud. It's when companies pay their customers to become their clients, i.e. to pay them back their own money. It's fake "revenue" - i.e. companies fabricating revenue by buying from themselves. The associate, referring to this "circle-jerk diagram about "AI" "investments" (see below), knows it is a bubble.

infinite money glitch

Does this seem like real economics or a bubble faking financial activity?

This is all just debt - something that grew into trillions in the tech sector alone (telecom, hardware, software). Some speculators inflate a bubble, trying to lure other people into "engaging" before they dump everything to 'cash in' (or out; pump and dump).

Companies are meant to create products of value, then derive income from these. "Except that IBM, Microsoft, and others do neither," the associate asserts. "VC money is about gambling these days, perhaps it always was. The idea is not to get anything done, the idea is to inflate a bubble long enough to get someone else to pay in and so the originals cash out."

Going back to the propaganda from Microsoft, no, there's no "investment" and no "hey hi". They wasted a lot of borrowed money on LLMs (and media hype about said LLMs) in order to fake Azure "revenue" (Microsoft borrowed money, gave this money in "credit" form to Scam Altman, then wrongly asserted that Azure "demand" was exploding, funded by money borrowed by Microsoft). The FTC noticed this. Then the Microsoft-funded dictator marched in.

This will not end well.

They told me some stuff about hey hi; I had no idea what they were talking about, so I gave them taxpayers' money

A month ago:

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