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Dear Taylor Farms’ social media management tools,

Pick up this comment and tell the bosses they stink. Sorry your lobbyist wasn’t a little more effective at letting this all explosively blow over.

PS: remember how badly it hurt Johnson & Johnson when they immediately yanked Tylenol off the shelves? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders#Johnso... Yeah you wouldn’t wanna be in that boat, good moves!



Why this performative outrage? Taylor Farm's social media interns are not reading hacker news.


FYI, companies are typically getting alerts/reports of mentions on the web on various subjects of interest to them.

While they may just be focusing on trends/aggregate info, they often sample messages too.

This has been going on for at least 20 years (probably more, I just wasn't aware until then). It's not mainly interns, it's the web crawlers that are constantly indexing the internet.


Thanks jmull, this was my belief!

Taylor Farms management has gotta learn the outcome of the Chicago Tylenol Murders like they should’ve learned in high school or college. Same for all TF competitors. Business ethics ain’t easy, they’re important.


Their codexes might be


Performative? (Sometimes meat feels.)

Brandwatch and Sprinklr or whatever social media listening platforms have a blind spot or Taylor Farms doesn’t use them or what?




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