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Much like The Sierra Club these organizations and their messages have been co-opted by larger, more powerful groups. It is an identical process to the one where trusted browser extensions are bought up by malware peddlers who then update the code nefariously afterwards using the good name of the newly changed extension.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chrome-extension-sold-to-new-dev-who-immediately-turns-it-into-adware/

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Similar to what happened to the drudge report.

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Absolutely correct

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