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I hope the former members of ACORN are enjoying a celebratory drink right now.

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll just return under a new "untainted" name and do it all over again.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just ask the folks at ~~Cambridge Analytica~~ Emerdata

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or the boys at “Arther Andersen,” the accounting firm in the Enron scandal, nowadays known as “Accenture”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And Blackwater is forever stained with the blood of innocents. But Academi is totally fine guys.

[–] teft@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t forget they were Xe for a couple years too.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And Avalon Securities.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

And Xhitter

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The accounting wing died. Accenture was spun off from the consulting wing, which should never have existed in the first place. Tim Hallett gives a really good breakdown of the shitshow in this article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229483938_Symbolic_Power_and_Organizational_Culture

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that link!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Accenture actually split off from Arthur Anderson just a little bit before the Enron scandal. It was incredibly lucky timing, since the Arthur Anderson name took a complete shit, but Accenture was able to thrive.

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As much as I hate CA. Its like the third time I've seen them mentioned this morning. Were they in the news or did something happen?

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"Emerdata" is bad French for "shitty data".

[–] flipht@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

This. They should have been arrested and had the book thrown at them when they trespassed in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office and attempted to wire tap her phones.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...and reminded those being laid off of their nondisclosure agreements.

I'd like to remind all of those being laid off that this is an organization that has ceased operations due to lack of funding. Do they have enough money to pay a lawyer to enforce their NDA?

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They will because the vultures who run these types of organizations and would be hurt by the information coming out always have money stashed in other companies or personal accounts.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Why use personal money when you can essentially blackmail your wealthy backers into defending you.

[–] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago

There's always money in the ~~banana stand~~ Cayman Islands

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One of the journalists let go in the bloodletting on Wednesday is Bobby Harr, a former lead investigative reporter with Project Veritas. Harr told Mediaite he was “confused” when he was officially laid off on a phone call with Giles and Kiyak Wednesday afternoon – because he had already been let go from the organization last month.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"Veritas" means "truth!"

[–] Maximilious@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

"We fixed the glitch - The whole thing will just work itself out naturally!"

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Samwise.bmp

But what about second severance

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Pippin was laid off last year.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Misinformation machine mismanaged and in post mortem.

Rest In piss.

I love how the ppl they contacted were like "you morons fired me a month ago".

It's all one big grift. Millions missing.🤷‍♂️

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gosh, that's such a shame. Sad face.

In all seriousness, it's sad that O'Queefe has not spent some time in prison for his activities.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Or at least caught a beating or two.

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[O’Keefe] ... left the organization earlier this year amid allegations of improper spending of funds on personal luxuries.

Oh, I missed this. I'm shocked. Shocked and apalled.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Good riddance.

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“The organization used to thrive and prosper. It’s truly sad to see what can happen to great opportunities with a surplus of resources when the wrong people are in power.”

People don’t know the difference between “to thrive and prosper” versus “launder and hide” money.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, time for the election year rebrand.

[–] jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

It's good to see this blatant partisan propaganda organization go down the shitter.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

Good riddance.

[–] Scooter411@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, this is awesome. Hopefully all involved can find honest work to do now.

[–] flipht@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spoiler, they won't. They'll go work for some right wing spin propaganda company or roll out new versions of the same bad faith, likely illegal, operation.

[–] Scooter411@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I know… but I don’t want to celebrate people losing their jobs (unless they are CEO’s or board members of almost any corporation) - the only way I could think to do that in this situation is to hope they get a job where they can contribute to society in a positive way.

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I celebrate them losing their jobs and I hope their dreams are crushed. They should suffer for all the damage they have done to civil discourse in my country. I have no sympathy at all for them.

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[–] flipht@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

No one worked for Project Veritas without buying into their mission. According to their 2021 Form 990, they had 59 employees and spent north of 6m on salaries. James okeef was the highest paid at 396k.

These people were well compensated for years to do illegal and immoral things. Do not pity them. Save that energy for the people whose lives they've destroyed. They got Acorn shut down, which employed a bunch of people across a lot of communities doing actual good work.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's OK to celebrate bad things happening to bad people. Even if you yourself don't want to punch a Nazi, you might have a problem if one getting punched in the face makes you sad...

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry. The executives kept their jobs.

One former Project Veritas staffer said just 11 people remain on the non-profit’s payroll, including CEO Hannah Giles.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I love your attitude! Never change Scooter… ❤️

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully none of them can find any work.

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[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Rest In Piss would be more appropriate but I reckon some of them might find this wish enjoyable.

Let them rot in hell where they deserve

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had journalist to let go? 🤔

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh no!

Anyway

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

May they all also contract a disease inshallah

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