Samsung

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Samsung is a company incorporated long ago and is now bedded in its country, South Korea's economy, courtesy of making everything from smart rings to oil tankers.

Summary of Anti-consumer practices

Samsung has campaigned against pro-consumer legislation in America, retroactively enforced forced arbitration in a mid-cycle update to its OneUI 5 Android skin, and placed egregious requirements on "authorised" repair vendors, including to fully dismantle and then hand write a letter asking to work on a device that has one non-genuine part inside of it. They also pay technicians to scratch peoples' TV's to scam them out of warranties and then further will illegally strike down video evidence of this being done to weasel out of liability for it.

On that vein, whether or not it's true, Samsung now have a few times been accused of astroturfing- particularly on the social platform reddit.