Fox News caught RED HANDED "astroturfing" Comments sections online

http://aattp.org/red-handed-fox-news...ment-sections/

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As the number one purveyor of lies and propaganda for the Tea Party Right, Fox News can never rest. It has been reported, courtesy of MediaMatters.org, that the hostile web environment known as the “comments sections” are an important front in their fight to spread misinformation and deceit. Have you ever suspected that blog traffic sometimes involves stopping to pay trolls? According to David Folkenflik with NPR, this seems to be the case when it comes to Fox. Folkenflik has released a new book, titled Murdoch’s World, in which he relays that Fox paid PR staffers to troll comments sections with pro-Fox diatribes in order to counter any negative or even neutral posts about the station. It was an elaborate ruse, which involved staffers creating dummy accounts (no pun intended) and stalking any and all blogs it could in order to clamp down on people telling the truth about Fox.

Ok, we knew it was Fox, but REALLY...

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