It was not just Katakuri and the Sweets Pirates who had been frightened by the Revolutionary Army's propaganda offensive. Pirates across the world had felt the same way.
That was both the drawback and the advantage of having a single source of information. The drawback was that whatever you said became the truth. Even if someone questioned it, their voice could not reach anyone else. Faced with such power, it was easy to lose yourself and become someone who stood above everyone else, claiming to control "public opinion."
Especially when that "public opinion" could even alter the political situation, it gained power and profit. Opportunists would naturally gather around it, turning it into a tool for their own gain.
Anything with a public nature and a certain degree of power could never be handed over to private individuals without restraint. After Leo took charge of the World Economic Journal, he immediately split it into departments and kept it firmly under his control.
As the things Leo did with the World Economic Journal became increasingly outrageous, Morgans gradually understood why Leo had distributed his authority. Clearly, this was a national instrument, a divine artifact that only a nation could use and control.
Under Leo, Morgans gradually came to understand the true purpose of news. Instead, he became even more obsessed with circulation and readership.
From a political standpoint, you could never measure the extent of your power purely with numbers, because some forms of power were invisible. For example, Leo and the others could easily purchase delicacies, fine wine, and even the highest-grade daily necessities from all over the world at low prices. They did not need to pay market prices. With the Revolutionary Army's numbers and consumption alone, or even just the words [special supply], they could obtain them. That