Faux News, faux comments
Posted by Charles II on October 21, 2013
Ben Dimeiro, MMA:
In a chapter focusing on how Fox utilized its notoriously ruthless public relations department in the mid-to-late 00’s, Folkenflik reports that Fox’s PR staffers would “post pro-Fox rants” in the comments sections of “negative and even neutral” blog posts written about the network. According to Folkenflik, the staffers used various tactics to cover their tracks, including setting up wireless broadband connections that “could not be traced back” to the network.
A former staffer told [NPR reporter David] Folkenflik that they had personally used “one hundred” fake accounts to plant Fox-friendly commentary:
I’m sure if Fox works on it, they can sink lower.
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Phoenix Woman said
And once again confirming that many if not most of the right-wing drones clogging the comments sections of our newspapers and websites are in fact paid trolls