Microsoft Trots Out Its Propaganda Agent Preston Gralla to Make It Sound Like Microsoft Breaks Up With China (Reality: Microsoft Got Dumped by China)
Unbelievable spin, an invention of narrative and inversion of truth, face-saving spin from Preston Gralla, basically a media operative of the company with access to the China-owned IDG:
Two days ago: Cloudflare Sees a Quarter of Requests in China Coming From GNU/Linux Today
Microsoft's media prowess - bribes to the media through advertising business or Microsoft's people infiltrating major publishers - is up on display today.
Don't take these nonsensical narratives too seriously. Microsoft is just deeply hurt, so it tries to somewhat shamelessly lie about the real news and somehow change the story.
This discredits any publisher that plays along. █
"Mind Control: To control mental output you have to control mental input. Take control of the channels by which developers receive information, then they can only think about the things you tell them. Thus, you control mindshare!"
--Microsoft, internal
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