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Datalies.com: How Sales Intelligence Firms Fabricate Data to Sell You and Your Story
by Akashma News
“They don’t report reality—they monetize assumptions.” Akashma
🧠 What Is Datanyze (aka Datalies)?
A man sits at a desk scraping data from the internet for profit, while code scrolls on his screen and a golden dollar sign looms over a wall of metadata. The commodification of personal information becomes currency in the surveillance economy. Image Credit: Akashma News | AI-generated via ChatGPT (OpenAI DALL·E)
Datanyze claims to be a “sales intelligence platform,” but beneath the surface, it’s just another data-scraping parasite that builds false business profiles for profit-hungry marketers. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a grassroots news site, a volunteer-run collective, or an individual with a domain—if you exist online, they’ll invent stats about you.
📉 How It Works (Or Doesn’t)
1. Scrapes public metadata (like domain registrars, cookies, and WordPress plugins)
2. Generates fake firmographics like:
Employee counts
Annual revenue
Business sector
Corporate hierarchy
3. Packages it all as “lead intelligence”
4. Sells access to this fabricated database to thousands of clients via ZoomInfo.
They don’t call to verify. They don’t ask for permission. They don’t care if they’re wrong.
🧱 What They Got Dead Wrong About Akashma News
Datalies Claim 🧾 Reality at Akashma News 📡
$1–5 million in revenue Zero profit. Not for sale. No ads.
10–19 employees Volunteer-run. Grassroots.
Santa Ana business office No
commercial headquarters. Digital activism.
Tech stack = WordPress Yes, but so what? Open-source ≠ target
Akashma News isn’t a “target audience” — it’s a target of surveillance capitalism trying to be commodified.
💥 Why This Matters
🧬 This isn’t just about Akashma News.
Datalies (Datanyze) and its parent company ZoomInfo are part of a surveillance industry that manufactures legitimacy, falsifies identities, and turns dissent into data.
💻 Want to start an independent platform to speak truth?Congrats, you’re now a “sales lead” in their spreadsheets.
📈 Want to stay off the radar?
Too bad. They’ll still assign you a fake revenue and push it to sales teams.
🚨 Warning to Independent Creators
If you own:
A blog
A Substack
A nonprofit org
A digital zine
A podcast
…then you’ve probably already been catalogued, misrepresented, and sold.
🎯 The Real Problem: Monetizing Activism
Platforms like Akashma News exist to challenge empire, expose injustice, and defend memory.
But “data intelligence” vultures like Datalies convert that into a false business model for Silicon Valley’s client-hunting algorithms.
They erase:
The heart
The struggle
The soul
…and replace it with marketing fluff.
📣 Call to Action
Let this be known:
Akashma News is not for sale. Not a brand. Not a lead. Not a product.
We are:
Writers of resistance
Archivists of pain
Messengers of the unseen
And no spreadsheet can contain us.
🛑 Final Message to Datanyze/ZoomInfo:
Your so-called “intelligence” is ignorance dressed in metrics.We are not your inventory. We are not your clickbait.Erase our names from your catalog.We didn’t consent to be digitized. Akashma
Signed,
Akashma News
Truth. Not Traffic.
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