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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 163 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Duped? How? By getting paid?

[–] Atsur@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oopsie I was just so confused by this giant bag of cash!

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I'm sure at least some of them truly believed they were worth more than shit

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Be nice to me, I'M the victim here!

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Whenn your livelihood depends on not noticing something, you'd be amazed how oblivious some people can be.

[–] RicoBerto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My job dupes me into coming in every night by uploading some wacky numbers to my bank account every two weeks. I fall for it every time.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The whacky numbers in your bank account are quite convenient to have tbf

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t allege any wrongdoing by the influencers, some of whom it says were given false information about the source of the company’s funding. Instead, it accuses two employees of RT, a Russian state media company, of funneling nearly $10 million to a Tennessee-based content creation company for Russia-friendly content.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

TN based. So again, "duped".

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By getting paid

More like bribed out of their minds. They absolutely KNEW that what they were doing wasn't worth a fraction of the money was handed to them.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

What they're doing isn't worth a monkey's fruity fart. But I'm sure they have senses of entitlement that are off the scale.