EAs in the media vs EAs in real life

It’s funny seeing people describe EA when they’ve clearly never met an EA

“They’re deceptive! See, here’s this article saying how they start off by explaining how they help children in Africa instead of jumping straight into AI exctinction risks!!!”

. . .  which they wrote about publicly in a million places. How secretive! 😛

I’m not sure if it’s advanced manipulation tactics to make transparency seem like secrecy or if it’s just a default human tendency to form prejudices against groups, especially when that group says that your job is unethical.