A Bestseller is Born: How Zuckerberg Uncovered the Streisand Effect

A Bestseller is Born: How Zuckerberg Uncovered the Streisand Effect

The Streisand Effect Resurfaces with a New Controversy History has shown that attempting to suppress an embarrassing story often backfires, leading to even greater public attention. This phenomenon, known as the Streisand Effect, gained its name from an incident where an effort to remove an aerial photo of Barbra Streisand’s mansion inadvertently increased its visibility online. In a similar vein, Meta, the tech giant led by Mark Zuckerberg, has…

Crippling Pierre's clothing boutiques, cutting teeth, pissing off a judge, political tit-for-tats & a bad law's Streisand effect

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Private Eye pulls Wild Justice adverts, causing ‘Streisand Effect’

A couple of weeks ago conservation campaign group Wild Justice put a full page advert in Private Eye, the UK’s number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine, to draw readers’ attention to the absurd release of over 50 million non-native pheasants into the countryside every year, for shooting. It was the first of three planned adverts and this one caused quite a reaction, with many people commenting how surprised they were to learn t…