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What kind of a company invites journalists from a newspaper known for its investigative/muckraking skills

I can only guess, but I'd be willing to bet it's because of a mistaken idea that "we're on the same side", therefore any reporting by Guarding would almost certainly end up positive.

and then hands over their secret sauce along with such gems:

... but yeah, I've got nothing, other than what were they thinking? I mean, I like the idea of keeping tabs on bad people, but then I'm not the one running a website that claims I won't track people.

In this situation it was in Whisper's interest to sell their ability to locate users as precisely as possible, they were obviously too keen to do so. Journalists value Whisper's user's content because they can be sure that it comes from a military base, for example, if their location tracking tools are precise.

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