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Breakfast briefing: Microsoft and Yahoo saga continues to drag on
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| Astroturfing - planting fake support for an idea or product - has been around
| the technology industry for a long time, but new claims have dragged Apple
| and the iPhone into the mire. The allegations from CrunchGear are that one PR
| firm has been getting interns to post positive reviews for clients on the
| iTunes Store. It's disappointing, and likely just the tip of a big, dirty
| iceberg: I'm sure that we're going to see more examples turn up very soon.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/24/breakfast-briefing
Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients
[UPDATED]
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| Reverb Communications is an extremely successful PR firm that claims to
| have âfirst partyâ and âpersonalâ relationships with Apple.
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| [...]
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| Another interesting side-story here is about Reverbâs relationship with
| Apple. Now, we donât expect Apple to have caught the bad behavior of one PR
| firm on the App Storeâs reviews. That would just be ridiculous. But we were
| surprised to know that Reverb had worked with Apple so much.
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http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/22/cheating-the-app-store-pr-firm-has-interns-post-positive-reviews-for-clients/
Recent:
Shameless Front Group Plans More Astroturf
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| After its public relations firm was outed for sending fake letters opposing
| the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill to members of Congress, the American Coalition
| for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is expanding its "grassroots" outreach.
| The coal industry front group "is launching a $1 million campaign" to secure
| more concessions for coal in the Senate version of the climate change bill.
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/8489
Related:
Microsoft puppets spamming ANSI
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| An impressive list of spam comments asking for supporting OOXML and
| backward compatibility, claiming also that "Open XML in no way
| contradicts any other international document standard". No really?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-11857/microsoft-puppets-spamming-ansi
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| In 2001, the Los Angeles Times accused Microsoft of astroturfing
| when hundreds of similar letters were sent to newspapers voicing
| disagreement with the United States Department of Justice and its
| antitrust suit against Microsoft. The letters, prepared by Americans
| for Technology Leadership, had in some cases been mailed from
| deceased citizens or nonexistent addresses.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
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