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If it's useful for anyone, I made a list of all the ways engineering media can be manipulated (including journalists):

https://github.com/nemild/hacking-engineers

I added this example to it since it's a particularly good example of how marketing/PR uses threats of access and cherry picked demo sessions to get their favored view out.

(Contributions welcome)

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Question. When are companies open positions with title names like "Growth Hacker, are" is their expectation to find someone who would deploy this kind of tactics? I ask because it seems that there's a line of thought that wants to legitimize some of these behaviors (voting rings, for instance.)

You're absolutely right, that's often the intent.

I approached my project with the hope of creating antibodies that makes those techniques less valuable. Or at minimal, help a few people better understand the incentives/techniques behind what they're seeing.

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