As Boeing is seeking to secure that taxpayer funding — and the prestige of launching astronauts into space — the company might be secretly placing an opinion article that criticizes SpaceX in newspapers around the US.

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To that end, as Ars Technica’s Eric Berger reported on Thursday, some evidence suggests that a PR firm in Washington that counts Boeing as a client may be attempting to negatively sway public opinion about SpaceX via a critical op-ed article that began to appear in newspapers around the country in July.

Source: Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant an op-ed slamming SpaceX – INSIDER

An interesting case study in how propaganda was seeded to media outlets, who then run the orchestrated story to their readers. Are you feeling manipulated yet?