IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business

L4sBot · 2 years ago

IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business

@LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

In before a fascist wannabe billionaire buys the weather channel just to destroy any credibility it has and hijack the climate change debate. Even change the name of weather channel to something like “Y”.

Let the enshittification begin.

@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

He’ll probably rename it to 🌦️

@ech0@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

*Databases crash noises

@Mateoto@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

This timeline is disturbingly absurd, making it increasingly likely that we could indeed face such a situation.

@nymwit@lemm.ee · 2 years ago

The Weather Channel tv channel isn’t owned by IBM and isn’t part of this deal

@PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 years ago

Steve Bannon is sadly already ahead of you:

The two networks’ shared ownership has alarmed some meteorologists, who say that WeatherNation is helping to legitimize the extreme viewpoints aired on Real America’s Voice, occasionally sharing its forecasts on the political network; at times the networks feature the same advertisers. These critics also argue that in its own coverage, WeatherNation fosters climate change skepticism by shunning any mention of the established links between human-driven climate warming and the disasters the channel covers, thus discouraging viewers from considering the consequences of climate change

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/20/weathernation-real-americas-voice-bannon/

If paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230221114035/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/20/weathernation-real-americas-voice-bannon/

Another article with tons of linked sources: https://checkmyads.org/branded/how-proctor-gamble-ended-up-funding-steve-bannons-war-room/

@DoomBot5@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Too late, it’s been shit for years now.