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Proton users cancel subscriptions following CEO Andy Yen’s “loser thinking” remarks (cybernews.com)
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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

You mean PR department. Marketing department does market research and ads

[–] morallysuperior@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

PR department is propaganda department. When propaganda earned a negative reputation, Edward Bernays, the same person who wrote the book that coined the term Propaganda coined the term PR to replace it in an American corporate context.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

In a lot of companies those roles overlap.