Mashable - Facebook has admitted hiring a PR firm to raise concerns about Google's privacy practices. The campaign backfired though when an agent from the firm was caught trying to "help" a prominent blogger write a critical piece on one of Google's services, according to The Daily Beast. The PR firm is Burson-Marsteller. The blogger is Chris Soghoian. A Burson agent approached him to write a piece on Google's Social Circle, a network of social connections that Google uses to deliver relevant search results. The Burson rep even offered to help write the piece.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
EXPOSED: Facebook's Plan To Plant Anti-Google Stories in the Press (Mashable)
Mashable - Facebook has admitted hiring a PR firm to raise concerns about Google's privacy practices. The campaign backfired though when an agent from the firm was caught trying to "help" a prominent blogger write a critical piece on one of Google's services, according to The Daily Beast. The PR firm is Burson-Marsteller. The blogger is Chris Soghoian. A Burson agent approached him to write a piece on Google's Social Circle, a network of social connections that Google uses to deliver relevant search results. The Burson rep even offered to help write the piece.
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