‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success

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  1. CoolCombination3527 on

    The men who founded the group behind Australia’s under 16 social media ban also own advertising companies and are promising companies like Nestle the ability to “help teens severed from their connections on social media by “offering up product discounts, centring activations around teenage interactions, creating exclusive ‘drops’ (as the kids say)””, after selling “sponsorship as a form of access to Australia’s most powerful people. When Wipfli and 36 Months went to the United Nations General Assembly “as a guest of the prime minister”, the organisation promised to bring sponsors along. “That’s a big tent pole — Australia on the global stage — and we’ll get some new brands involved,” Attwells said to media trade publication Mi3.”

    They’re also apparently developing “an “AI-powered wellbeing intelligent system” to “track, monitor and manage student wellbeing”. It was being built by Nakatomi, a technology company that’s wholly owned by Galluzzo’s FINCH, to pick up signs for risky behaviours, substance abuse, self-harm, eating disorders and suicide.”

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    >At the centre of Communications Minister Anika Wells’ sprawling parliamentary expense scandal is a $100,000 whirlwind trip to the United Nations in New York to sell Australia’s teen social media ban.

    >In between a packed schedule of tech companies meetings and press appearances, Wells made time to appear as a guest of honour, alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, at an event held at celebrity-owned, Australia-themed bar.

    >The event was hosted by 36 Months, a group that both Albanese and Wells has repeatedly thanked for being behind the ban.

    >The next day, 36 Months’ managing director Greg Attwells posted pictures of the event to LinkedIn with the caption: “In the aftermath of our UN moment today I’m mindful of the brave brands that have lived their values and supported our movement,” he said, before listing off 36 Months’ corporate sponsors, whose logos had been emblazoned across the event.

    >The decision to salute the courage of Nestlé and Hyundai out of everyone involved with the campaign raised eyebrows with some in the youth online safety space.

  3. Desperate_Path_377 on

    Is everything in the world just a grift?!?

    I am starting to feel stupid for not having my own grift and instead working 9-5 like a rube.

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