Facebook Smear Campaign Against Google Backfires
A true-to-life drama better than anything Aaron Sorkin could pen for Hollywood.
Dan Lyon’s The Daily Beast reported today that Facebook hired “Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, urging them to investigate claims that Google was invading people’s privacy.”
Burson offered to help Chris Soghoian, a prominent blogger, write a Google-bashing op-ed. Then, Burson backed up the proposal with a promise to place the blog in outlets like The Washington Post, Politico and The Huffington Post.
Facebook’s proposed smear campaign was fabricated from a Google tool called Social Circle.
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