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Shaming (kinda) works: Proton cancels ‘re-interviews’
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this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Meanwhile, over on reddit, Proton has launched a bot-assisted astroturfing campaign to refute the spreading narrative. It takes the form of a missive from a "staff engineer" who's shocked and angry at how much his dear CEO has been clipped out of context.
In the first 10 minutes after the post went live, it had dozens of comments from posters saying things like, "Wow! Thank you for the truth!"
Five hours later the post's upvote counter is over 3k.
Totally fake PR damage control.
To avoid the censorship and bot-assisted PR campaigns on the official subreddit, there is now a community-managed subreddit dedicated to Proton: r/ProtonPublic.
Reddit is one big psyop. I fear that as Lemmy's profile grows, the same thing will happen here. Seems to me the only way to fight it is to protest IRL.