Facebook Backlash Inundates Food Magazine Over Content Theft

Hundreds condemn food magazine Cooks Source and advertisers abandon the publication after editor attempts to justify stealing content from the web.

While Facebook pages are a good way for companies to communicate with consumers, they’re also a good way for citizens to vent their rage at wayward companies. Communication goes both ways.

We saw the mess that protesters made of Nestlé’s Facebook page after a run-in between the food giant and Greenpeace over the issue of palm oil in chocolate. Now it’s a small regional food magazine that is feeling the heat – and deservedly so, from the sounds of things.

It appears that Cooks Source magazine, a “publication for food lovers in western New England”, has been filling its pages with stolen content.

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