<![CDATA[Who’s behind W Social?]]>RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116645486985827346

Who’s behind W Social?

Folks like this:

“Ingmar Rentzhog, an entrepreneur who claims he found and helped develop the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg into a world phenomenon, also used her name to bring in almost SEK 10 million in venture capital for his company - without her knowledge, SvD has found. ‘We had no information about that’c says Svante Thunberg, the teenager’s father.”

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“I'd venture to say that Rentzhog has a talent for spotting trends tied to societal causes - climate change, European digital sovereignty - and harnessing media attention to build businesses around them.”

– @_elena

Is Europe-washing a term? Because it should be.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/13c87e53-2a26-49f7-87a8-badfb9c8f8b6/who-s-behind-w-socialRSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 08:28:46 GMTThu, 28 May 2026 11:33:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Who’s behind W Social? on Thu, 28 May 2026 11:46:10 GMT]]>@_elena Thanks for digging in and writing this up 🙂 💕

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116652033371895281https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/116652033371895281Thu, 28 May 2026 11:46:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Who’s behind W Social? on Thu, 28 May 2026 11:42:10 GMT]]>@aral That's parasite behaviour from Rentzhog right there, hopping on liberal bandwagons to line his pocket. We need far fewer of his type.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116652017601677196https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116652017601677196Thu, 28 May 2026 11:42:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Who’s behind W Social? on Thu, 28 May 2026 11:37:01 GMT]]>@aral thanks for sharing Aral! I didn’t editorialize in my piece because (a) I thought showing hard facts would be more persuasive (b) Zeiter herself is a lawyer and they have an army of powerful people in their team.

But now that the piece is out, I feel free to say that in my personal opinion they are and

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_elena/statuses/116651997365250113https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_elena/statuses/116651997365250113Thu, 28 May 2026 11:37:01 GMT