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That could apply to a huge portion of all businesses on Twitter. How many of the F500 have benefitted from a gov't bailout or some other taxpayer subsidy. No one is really squeaky clean on this front.


Most F500 companies aren’t media companies, and the interests motivating any public statements they make are well understood by the public.


How many media companies got PPP loans? Probably all of them, right?


This is an excellent point. If you review my comment history I think you’ll find some of my most downvoted comments being about how rolling out the biggest infringements upon civil liberties since WWII, and then creating a financing program that media companies rely upon to survive, was one of the most corrupt things I’d seen during my life time.


Well, maybe.




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