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'Inside Google' is an AstroTurfing/Lobbying Site, Not a Real Blog

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Edelman hides its frauds under 'umbrella' entities like "Grassroots Enterprise"



Summary: Edelman's anti-Google campaign seems to be nymshifting and chances are increasing that Microsoft is funding it, given its prior business with Edelman (e.g. laptop bribes)

EDELMAN seems to have just taken over Grassroots Enterprise (it's the exact opposite of grassroots), unless it was the PR agency behind it all along. Techrights has a special page about Edelman, one of the world's nastiest entities of its kind. It's hired to destroy worker unions, to crush opposition, and even to bribe bloggers on Microsoft's behalf. Edelman's Grassroots Enterprise is by all indications also the entity behind "Inside Google", which is a separately-located highly ridiculous blog of 'Consumer' 'Watchdog' (it's neither a watchdog nor an entity for consumers). To clarify again, it's not a rights group, it's well-funded and well-oiled AstroTurfing machine working for clients who order some Web site designs and a team to pretend it is something else and fill the press with rubbish about the client's competition. We covered this before and showed the connections. We also filed formal a complaint to the FTC about Edelman.



“It's hired to destroy worker unions, to crush opposition, and even to bribe bloggers on Microsoft's behalf.”Here is what we love the most about this AstroTurfer; to make it look credible they now have the option to send in donations. We feel sorry for the suckers who give away money to one of the Earth's filthiest scum, but then again, there is a sucker born every minute. Wired Magazine is the latest sucker to have fallen for this AstroTurfer. Better informed chaps should let Wired editors know they have been duped by an AstroTurfing group (part of a network of professional AstroTurfers). This one is smearing Google. It's its only goal, but it's called 'Consumer' 'Watchdog' (which sounds a lot broader).

To those who are new to the world of AstroTurfing we recommend this page.

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