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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How corporations got all your data

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The History of Public Relations

The founder of public relations is this guy named Ed Bernays, who you talk about in the book quite a bit. He was dealing with what he felt to be sort of fundamental needs on both the corporate sector and the government sector. And one needed only to look over what was happening initially in fascist Italy and then in Nazi Germany to see just how powerful propaganda was going to be.

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