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[News] [Rival] CNET on AstroTurfing in Comments

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NBA PR man admits he's anonymous commenter

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10248462-71.html

- From the comments:

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|     You just don't what Microsoft brought into this subject.
| 
| 
| [...]
| 
|     It seems as if Microsoft employees comment regularly in Microsoft's favor 
|     on this board. How may times have we read how great Visa is, or how good 
|     Windows 7 will be?  
| 
|     Why shouldn't people working for other corporations do the same? Honesty 
|     and truth have nothing to do with business and marketing. Only money 
|     counts.  
| 
| [...]
| 
|     I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft would stoop so low as to 
|     actually pay people to support their view on any internet forum. 
| 
|     NO company is that bad. Paying people to do that could be considered 
|     dishonest.  
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Related:

Is MS Preening in Public Posts?

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| The author of the email, posted on ZDNet in a Talkback forum on the Microsoft
| antitrust trial, claimed her name was Michelle Bradley and that she
| had "retired" from Microsoft last week.
|
| "A verbal memo [no email allowed] was passed around the MS campus encouraging
| MS employee's to post to ZDNet articles like this one," the email said.
|
| "The theme is 'Microsoft is responsible for all good things in computerdom.'
| The government has no right to prevent MS from doing anything. Period.
| The 'memo' suggests we use fictional names and state and to identify
| ourselves as students," the author claimed.
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