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May 12, 2011 10:29 pm PDT
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Facebook outed as source of anti-Google PR smear campaign
Facebook is reported to have hired public relations firm Burson-Marstellar to generate negative stories about Facebook competitor Google— specifically, "urging [journalists] to investigate claims that Google was invading people's privacy." Well that's rich. One of their targets was Christopher Soghoian, a security researcher and blogger, who is no chump. Things did not work out as planned. Dan Lyons chronicles the epic "Keystone Kops"-like routine at The Daily Beast. Soghoian has posted the email exchange he had with Burson-Marstellar here....
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