Techrights Became a Hub for News That IBM/Red Hat Doesn't Want You to See (and Pays Mainstream Media to Distract From)
Responses to Rupert Murdoch's WSJ on "AI": (blaming a buzzword, not a commercial problem, for layoffs)
For well over a decade this site was a platform for EPO news and whistleblowers. EPO management keeps mentioning us (by name), managers allegedly shout out our name, as they're afraid of what people leak to us and what we keep publishing. In more recent times the same happened for IBM. IBM management reviles us and it seems like it's sending an escalating level/tone of threatening messages our way. This is going to backfire, as usual.
See, based on my experience (and I've done this for over 20 years), the more viciously the notorious organisation attacks the reporter, the greater the interest in what the reporter has to say. More leakers come forth, more actions follow (e.g. strikes), and workers become increasingly "militant" - to the point of leaking their bosses' most embarrassing E-mails. Remember Grant Philpott, Francesco Zacca et al? How did their threats to me (sent from several law firms) work out at the end? Over 5,000 EPO articles later... we're still writing about the EPO every day.
Now, regarding IBM, just a day after I said to several people IBM would likely try hard to silence us (because we're a thorn on their side in the context of accounting fraud) a threat was sent to my wife and to myself. Of course it could be just a coincidence, but the surrounding circumstances can be taken into account.
IBM is in deep trouble, with many more layoffs coming very soon. They thought they could get the "media" under control (to cooperate and participate in PR) with paid puff pieces and slopfarms saying something about "hiring" and "tripling", but no... nobody is buying this nonsense. █