Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Public Outrage

Citations Needed

Bias, News, Media, Society & Culture, Journalism, Criticism, Politics

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we detail the classic PR gambit of corporations anticipating regulation, offering to "self-police," implementing token or superficial reforms, waiting for the outrage to blow over, then going back to business a usual. With guest Timi Iwayemi of Revolving Door Project.

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1:15.0	Facebook's Zuckerberg backs online political ad regulations forwarded by Senator Amy Klobuchar,
1:22.5	reported the Associated Press in 2018. CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says crypto needs to embrace regulation, announced Business Insider in 2021.
1:33.3	AI leaders say, please regulate us.
1:37.3	Read an Axios headline in 2023.
1:40.3	In recent years, major U.S. companies, especially tech, crypto, and so-called AI, have given
1:46.2	new life to a long-standing corporate PR strategy, that of self-regulation.
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