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Media blackout of “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett continues as company CEO David Calhoun steps down

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/27/vziq-m27.html

The numerous incidents on Boeing aircraft in the past three months reflect the drive of the company’s executives to maximize profits for stockholders to the detriment of safety on its fleet of commercial airliners.

Media blackout of “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett continues as company CEO David Calhoun steps down

22 comments

Kalkaline

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"Media blackout" the Wikipedia reference lists many mainstream sources that have covered the story.

EdibleFriend

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And the fact that he said 'if I die it's not suicide' was on most major sources.

Cruxifux

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I really hate when I hear about things getting the media blackout treatment, and the reason I know about them is because I heard about them from mainstream media sources.

EdibleFriend

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It's always some stupid shitty little website like OP is linking trying to convince people that they're the only ones sharing the truth. He spammed this shit in a few different subs too.

Synnr

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Looking further into the website, especially the category descriptions, it's largely AI written and looks like a propaganda website like masses created and spread during the last 2 American election seasons.

EdibleFriend

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Sounds about right.

sugar_in_your_tea

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Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of this crap on this community.

Maybe we need a bot to do a cursory search for more trusted sources for a given topic.

Synnr

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Unfortunately it's election season in the US, so any sources of conversation will be overtaken by bad actors. That means any politics subs, news subs, and especially US Politics subs. A whitelist could work but it would take a lot of work and make a lot of users mad, they tried on Reddit for a few subs and the list of allowed sites was huge. Then you also have people asking, can Fox News be blacklisted? And if it's not, the propagandists will shift their strategy from fake websites to websites with low integrity like Fox and make the article fit their 'opinion'... It's a neverending cat and mouse game where the only strategy that works is well-trained moderators, and only if the bots (read: bot farms, humans) aren't vying for a mod position as soon as it opens, which they will be.

sugar_in_your_tea

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Yeah, I really liked /r/neutralnews, which had a whitelist (for posts) and a blacklist (for comments), and anything else was taken on a case-by-case basis.

And the problem isn't just because it's election season (but it'll get worse), it was also a problem when I joined last summer. It's a "tons of leftists on lemmy.ml" problem posting sketching sources that serves whatever their agenda is.

That said, I don't think we should necessarily have a blacklist (and certainly not with lemmy as-is), but a bot with a large whitelist of sources pulled from /r/neutralnews that provides alternatives would be awesome (bonus points if it also archives the relevant pages). It would basically do a search with the given search terms, pull links from the first 10 or so relevant results, and randomly choose 2-3 that have a high correlation with the posted source (and a link for a search query on DDG or similar for more results).

Maybe I'll hack on that, idk. I've wanted something like /r/neutralnews since coming here, and I haven't found anything remotely similar.

UnpluggedFridge

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Are people expecting journalists to get ahold of this body and do their their own autopsy? To seize evidence and do their own forensic analysis? There are no developments because there is no way for journalists to get more information. Without more information, there is nothing to report.

BigDanishGuy

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Man makes an enemy of a large company, man tells friends and family that he would not commit suicide and not to believe that in case he dies, man dies... Coroner yup, that's totally a suicide while counting a large stack of 50s...

delirious_owl

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Why 50s?

BigDanishGuy

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Because larger denominations are harder to spend in stores, and depositing a large amount, without a plausible story, will get scrutinized and/or flagged for the tax authorities. At least with European banking laws, I can't speak for US laws.

delirious_owl

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Thats not the case in the US. You only trigger additional processes if you deposit >$10,000

Its true that the EU is much more of a PIA with cash

DigitalDruid

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banks also watch for people trying to stay just under that 10k limit, the govt. wants its cut

delirious_owl

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Nah, that's more work for them.

DigitalDruid

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Corkyskog

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AML investigations and fines are a bitch, they definitely do care. However, I think it's basically automated at this point. Tellers or even bank managers aren't making spot judgement calls.

7heo

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During his tenure, Calhoun made $24.5 million in salary and benefits and will possibly make a further $45.5 million from stock options he retains and $5 million from a retirement package.

Hey boss, there's your problem.