Ex-Meta comms staffer mocks Oracle's 14-press-release blitz: comms needs a seat at the table
alexvoica · x · 2026-10-28
Oracle just published 14 press releases in one go, drawing mockery from tech comms veterans. alexvoica, who worked at Meta during peak Covid, recalls suggesting at a weekly comms meeting that a dozen press releases ("ahem, Newsroom posts") a week was maybe a bit much.
His take: comms needs a seat at the table rather than being treated as a service function printing on autopilot — a window into the PR arms race of the AI era.
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