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I assume their writeup got filtered through PR and Legal.


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I only skimmed through the beginning but I am not sure what the news is. Looks like they mostly/only? pulled it from some filings that I am sure was being put together by third party agents.

Seems unlikely they were mentioned in the paper in this depth without being made even casually aware that this paper would be published.

Which means they just went ahead with it anyway.


Where was the information published? Couldn't find it anywhere...

Sorry, the article or the report? I don't see anything in the article.

Entirely possible they engaged an agency to create the report...

That would explain the choice of tools and Shutterstock.


I’ll give the benefit of the doubt and assume they mean actual reporting rather than what often read like company press releases or marketing.

This makes it sound like the news got broken by their SEC filing, rather than via their own PR.

Yuck. Does anyone know if they were forced to put out that press release or did they actually write that on their own volition?

I'm pretty sure that was written by a lawyer according to talking points from PR and given a glance and stamp by the CEO

Really it's all for nothing though until the politics are sorted out


They separately confirmed it, although in terms of timing they were scooped by Reuters which generally means you publish what you have, when you have it.

It says there's a write up coming.

I had the exact same thought. I wonder where those execs get the information from and more importantly, how the information is filtered, because they are clearly a few years ahead of what's being posted on, say, HN.

I strongly suspect that it was only self-reported because someone who used to work for the firm was now at the regulatory body and gave an old buddy a heads-up.

It does disclose it... this is at the end of the article:

Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik and edited by Acting Chief Business Editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editor Vickie Walton-James. NPR's Bobby Allyn and Mary Yang contributed to this story. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.

What more do you want?


Yes, “451: Unavailable due to legal reasons” and then some details about the GDPR (but not saying why).

My guess is a local news outlet that’s big enough to know about the legal requirements but doesn’t actually see any value in doing the compliance work.


From the article, yes. Where's the report?

The reports were published. My email is in my profile if you'd like a link.

Thanks, I don't see a link to that from the submitted Press release. I don't think it's fair to ask me if I haven't actually looked when I did in fact read the press release.

No, I did not spend extra time to click around, because I simply didn't care that much.

In any case I'm glad this doesn't fall under these shit laws (yet).


It didn’t. The source report lists both of those.
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