KKKoch Brothers hiring trolls to rewrite Wikipedia?

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  • FORD
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    • Jan 2004
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    KKKoch Brothers hiring trolls to rewrite Wikipedia?

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  • Nitro Express
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
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    #2
    The Coke Brothers
    No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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    • ELVIS
      Banned
      • Dec 2003
      • 44120

      #3
      As if the left hasn't been doing this since the internet began...

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      • Nitro Express
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        • Aug 2004
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        #4
        Originally posted by ELVIS
        As if the left hasn't been doing this since the internet began...
        They all do it. We have the best government money can buy.
        No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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        • ELVIS
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          • Dec 2003
          • 44120

          #5

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          • FORD
            ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

            • Jan 2004
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            #6
            Koch Industries Employs PR Firm To Airbrush Wikipedia, Gets Banned For Unethical ‘Sock Puppets’

            Last year, Koch Industries began employing New Media Strategies (NMS), an Internet PR firm that specializes in “word-of-mouth marketing” for major corporations including Coca-Cola, Burger King, AT&T, Dodge and Ford. It appears that, ever since the NMS contract was inked with Koch, an NMS employee began editing the Wikipedia page for “Charles Koch,” “David Koch,” “Political activities of the Koch family,” and “The Science of Success” (a book written by Charles). Under the moniker of “MBMAdmirer,” NMS employees edited Wikipedia articles to distance the Koch family from the Tea Party movement, to provide baseless comparisons between Koch and conspiracy theories surrounding George Soros, and to generally delete citations to liberal news outlets. After administrators flagged the MBMAdmirer account as a “sock puppet” — one of many fake accounts used to manipulate new media sites — a subsequent sock puppet investigation found that MBMAdmirer is connected to a number of dummy accounts and ones owned by NMS employees like Jeff Taylor.

            Soren Dayton, a GOP operative and executive at New Media Strategies, is reported to be the contact for Koch Industries at NMS. Reached by phone yesterday by ThinkProgress, Dayton exclaimed, “I’m not going to talk about this, thanks,” before hanging up. Lyndsey Medsker, a senior account director for NMS, spoke to ThinkProgress today. She explained that NMS also maintains the Koch Industries Twitter page, Facebook page, and has an active team working on promoting Koch Industries in the comment section of blogs and news websites.

            As ThinkProgress has reported, the billionaire Koch brothers maintain contracts with over a dozen public relation firms and lobbying firms. Pushing back again recent scrutiny, the brothers have also relied on a conservative media infrastructure owned by the Koch brothers or closely linked to them by way of their donor conferences. We have documented how the Koch message machine has targeted ThinkProgress and even placed hit-pieces against a New Yorker journalist investigated the Kochs. But now it seems the Koch brothers are at work manipulating Wikipedia to polish their image.
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            • ELVIS
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              • Dec 2003
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              #7
              Linkless garbage...

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              • FORD
                ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

                • Jan 2004
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                #8
                I thought the repeated usage of the name "ThinkProgress" would have made the source obvious enough.
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                "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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                • ELVIS
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                  • Dec 2003
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                  #9
                  No, that's proof that it's liberal bullshit...

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                  • FORD
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                    • Jan 2004
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                    #10
                    ELVIS, would Jesus take the KKKoch Brothers side?
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                    "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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                    • ELVIS
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                      • Dec 2003
                      • 44120

                      #11
                      Would he take George Soros' side ??

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                      • FORD
                        ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

                        • Jan 2004
                        • 58754

                        #12
                        Well..... at least George Soros is Jewish, so JC might like that about him.
                        Eat Us And Smile

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                        "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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