EPO President António Campinosbuying complicity from the Dutch government days before his term started
Summary: With millions of euros wasted on an hours-long PR blitz (and paid-for media puff pieces) we know it's just a matter of money; the media charges for its puff pieces
There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - people generally gravitate towards what they know or feel to be crude truth, not just what's comforting (albeit false or self-deluding, usually groupthink dictated from above)
Democracy depends on free press and freedom of the press depends on being able to safely publish (and keep available) material that bad people don't want to be known to anybody
The Web is really getting bad; it's also overwhelmed by fake material or plagiarised material, wherein the plagiarism gets disguised/hidden by LLM sausage factories
