Tactics

Lots of people are doing great work covering the horrors unfolding in the U.S. - both legal and not.

This story about Greenpeace should be (yet another) wake up for nonprofit organizations. It shows off two tactics I'm sad to say will likely proliferate: lawsuits and AI-enabled jury pool tainting.

For the first, in addition to lawsuits by the President himself, media outlets and publishers (in addition to nonprofits) are being sued by his largest campaign donor and car salesman and by companies like #Meta that don't like what former employees have to say about the inner workings. This all builds on Peter Thiel's lawsuit against Gawker on behalf of Hulk Hogan, back in the day.

The Greenpeace story has the added twist of an unknown "newspaper" serving up AI-produced stories to the community from which jurors would be selected. This is called "pink slime" journalism - clearly partisan talking points printed on newsprint to look legit (though few people I know under the age of 40 know what "newsprint" is).

Between picking the judges, tainting the jury pools, and ginning up harms about which to sue you'd be forgiven for doubting that what is sought here is justice.