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BlackRock Does the Right Thing/

Selected press and media

Selected media coverage:

  • Business Insider
  • Barrons
  • CNBC
  • More CNBC
  • Financial Times
  • Financial News
  • Financial News London
  • New York Post
  • Democracy Now!
  • Institutional Investor
  • Axios
  • Business Green

The hoax was cited in coverage of Larry Fink's real letter when it was released:

  • New York Times
  • CNBC Squawk Box
  • Barron’s
  • New York Post
  • Impact Alpha
  • BlackRock's Wikipedia entry
  • Greenbiz

And long afterward:

  • The Guardian
  • Responsible Investor

Selected tweets:

  • BlackRock
  • Bess Levin
  • Carbon Bubble
  • Alex Steffen
  • Meghan Morris
  • Taylor Kuykendall


Financial Times' original (removed) story:

 

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Fake Fink letter
"BlackRock" responds
"Reveal" press release
Selected press and media
Oh good, you made it to the bottom of the page

Make a fake newspaper filled with good news.

We did this one

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Go impersonate the villain of your choice.

Here's one way to do it.

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Go build a website for an entity you wish existed.

Learn how here!

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Do Something.

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Dress up as zombies and take over your city.

Kinda like this...

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Dig a pipeline right through the middle of a city.

Including the graveyards. 

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Join us on our next project... or forever.

And no, we're not a cult.

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Get a job at Walmart.

Or just pretend to.